“But what about the larger interests of the country and the fact that Americans have their own feelings and voted to get us out of messes like this? Should that be ignored?”
“US”
YOU are not in the “mess”. You are safe at home. It is YOUR soldiers who are in the “mess” and my guess is most of them disagree with you.
The only “interest” being served by this policy change is not “for the country”. It is for what Trump thinks is the politics of him doing it, because he said he would. And, he sad he would without even knowing what’s what and what was really going on.
Loyalty with allies in arms is an American interest.
Our work with the Kurds has been tiny, compared to South Korea, even what we still have in Japan, or Europe, or even Africa (yes, we have hundreds of special forces in Africa - 5 to 6,000 - and that’s more than in Syria). If it was a matter of saving money, there was plenty of places to cut.
No. There is one beneficiary of the new policy and it’s not Trump and it’s not you. It’s Erdogan.
Trump has made it clear that he feels the US has been ensnared in too many foreign wars and he promised to change that (e.g., “I will never send our finest into battle unless necessary, and I mean absolutely necessary, and will only do so if we have a plan for victory with a capital V”.) He has reiterated this same theme over and over again. The American people voted for him as the 45th president.
You will have your opportunity to vote for someone else in one year’s time.