President Trump took a victory lap Wednesday when he claimed that the “cease-fire” on the Turkish-Syrian border justified his decision to lift all sanctions on Turkey.
The halt in the fighting, moreover, supposedly proved the ostensible wisdom of the president’s widely criticized decision to betray America’s Kurdish allies by greenlighting Turkey’s invasion of Syria to establish a security zone at the border.
But Trump’s hastily organized appearance in the Diplomatic Reception Room in the White House had a broader agenda.
First, the president’s announcement was intended to underscore the highly questionable benefits of his isolationist “America First” approach to foreign policy and his determination to end America’s “endless wars” in the Middle East.
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Judith Miller is a contributing editor of City Journal and adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Follow her on Twitter here.
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