WNU Editor: President Trump "hopes" that Turkish President Erdogan will act rationally. But if I may quote what Hillary Clinton said a few years ago .... hope is not a strategy. But there may be a strategy behind President Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. forces from the quagmire that is Syria today while also giving Russian President Putin the headache of handling Erdogan, and it is articulated here .... The puzzling logic behind Trump’s Syria withdrawal (M.K. Bhadrakumar, Asia Times).
