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No, Trump is not like Obama on Middle East policy

  • Written by James L. Gelvin, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of California, Los Angeles
President Donald Trump speaks at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq.(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

On Jan. 6, National Security Advisor John Bolton walked back President Donald Trump’s announcement that the U.S. would quickly withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, saying that such a withdrawal might actually take months or years.

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