Decision big mistake

To date President Trump has attempted to fulfil his election promises, despite being impeded and blocked at every turn by his power-broker opponents.

However his latest declaration of his intention to bring home the 2000 troops who have been supporting Kurdish fighters in Syria is, in my view, his greatest mistake thus far.

Washington has repeatedly promised not to abandon its Kurdish allies in Syria.

If the United States chooses to break that promise, onlookers in the Middle East and beyond, including Australia and New Zealand will lose trust in the United States as an ally.

To abandon the Kurds for the sake of returning 2000 US troops home is an outrage.

It is the presence of that small number of US troops that have prevented Turkish, Russian and Assad’s forces from wiping out all Kurdish opposition in the Middle East.

They all have their own separate agendas in seeing the Kurds out of the Middle East, but in reality Kurdish forces have been the most effective in removing the Islamic State from Syria, who without doubt, will return and regather strength if the Kurds and the US troops disappear.

If the United States chooses to abandon the Kurds and leave, Syria, Russia, Iran and others will be all too eager to fill the space Washington leaves, but most importantly, the Western world will loose confidence in the reliability of the US as an ally.

That is certainly not going to achieve President’s mandate to ‘‘Make the United States Great Again’’.

Brian Main, Hamilton