Patrick Cockburn: Ignore the howls of protest – Trump's Syria withdrawal is a simple reflection of foreign policy realities

The kind of nuanced approach which, agree or not in whole or part, is oh-so-twentieth-century.

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Here's another person with some knowledge and not among those who simply want to cheerlead blindly for one or the other side of the ever-present mutually-exclusive binary, Andrew Bacevich.