In the days after President Trump paved the way for Turkey to invade northern Syria, several of his closest allies went to the White House — twice — to try to change his mind, according to four people familiar with the meetings.
On Oct. 7, the day before Keane, whom Trump had considered to be his defense secretary, first came to the White House to talk to him about Syria, he appeared on Fox News and described the president's decision on Syria as a"strategic blunder." His in-person presentation to Trump on Oct. 8 seemed to leave an impression on the president, according to two people familiar with it. One of them said Trump"responded favorably.
In the first two years of the administration, current and former officials said Trump so frequently threatened to withdraw U.S. troops from, Syria, Iraq and even the Korean Peninsula that some of his advisers developed a system for talking him down from taking such steps. The effort included showing him visual materials like maps to walk through the reasons why an abrupt withdrawal would be detrimental to U.S. interests, officials said.
The focus on Iran in trying to convince Trump to keep a contingent of U.S. troops in northern Syria — rather than on potential action by Russia, which officials say is far more capable and likely to make moves to harness the oil — is in part because the president has appeared more likely to be persuaded by proposals aimed at countering Iran than Russia, according to one former U.S. official.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper said he and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended the initial pullback of U.S. troops in northern Syria because of"the imminent invasion by the Turks," a NATO ally.
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