Obama’s Syria Ambassador Goes Rogue, Backs Trump’s Decision

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By Hanna Bogorowski
December 28, 2018 at 10:34am

President Donald Trump’s decision to begin pulling U.S. troops from Syria was met with criticism and outcry from pundits and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, but former Ambassador to Syria Robert S. Ford called the move “essentially correct.”

Critics of Trump’s decision, announced on Dec. 19 by White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, have called it “a huge Obama-like mistake,” a win for America’s enemies and a betrayal of our allies.

But Robert S. Ford, who served as U.S. Ambassador to Syria under President Barack Obama from 2011 to 2014, disputed the reasons for critique and added that the president needs to develop a national security team that can better relay and implement his foreign policy objectives.


rump “should view the hullabaloo that erupted after he announced the Syrian pullout as an opportunity to take a number of steps to make the most of his essentially correct, but widely unpopular, move,” Ford wrote Thursday in The Washington Post.

He pointed out that many opponents fear the pullout will lend a victory to Russia, Iran and Syria, but the former ambassador called this “absurd,” noting that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime already controls roughly two-thirds of Syria. The regions that the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces control are largely deserts and drought-prone oil fields with low-value crude.

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