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Today, Explained

Where are the troops going?

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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President Trump is pulling out of Syria while sending more troops to Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The president is taking troops out of Syria because he's tired of endless wars.

0:12.4

Endless wars, endless wars, they don't stop, they don't stop, they go on forever.

0:18.5

We become policemen.

0:20.3

Because he wants to bring our soldiers back home.

0:23.3

American combat troops should not be at the center of ancient sectarian conflicts all over the world.

0:31.6

Bring our soldiers back home.

0:35.2

Bring our soldiers back home.

0:37.8

Because this isn't our war to fight.

0:42.7

If you look at other countries, Russia, China, they don't have countries to take care of.

0:47.7

We have, we're close to 90 countries in one form or another.

0:51.0

We're in 90 countries all over the world.

0:53.6

Policing and frankly many of those countries, they don't respect what we're doing.

0:58.0

They don't even like what we're doing and they don't like us.

1:00.7

But now it looks like they're not coming home at all.

1:03.8

The current game plan is for those forces to reposition into Western Iraq and then to

1:10.5

two missions.

1:11.5

One is to help defend Iraq and two is to perform a counter-ISIS mission as we sort through

1:17.3

the next steps.

1:18.9

United States troops are being pulled out of Syria and sent to Iraq to continue fighting

1:24.9

an endless war but also to help fight ISIS.

1:29.0

Even though the troop withdrawal in Syria might actually help ISIS in that country.

1:35.0

And if you're having trouble wrapping your head around that, just wait until you hear

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