Fredric Raichlen is Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, and the author of Waves.
US President Donald Trump's impulsive decision to pull American troops out of northern Syria and allow Turkey to launch a military campaign against the Kurds there has proved utterly disastrous. But a crisis was already inevitable, given the realities on the ground and the absence of a coherent US or Western policy in Syria.
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