The one advantage to Trump’s Syria withdrawal

Trump’s pullout of troops from Syria and desertion of our Kurdish allies has been an unreservedly awful move for American foreign policy, opposed by damned near everyone in the military, the intelligence community, and even Congress, the desertion of a reliable ally and a worldwide broadcast that being allied with the US means nothing under Trump and the furthering of Turkish, Iranian, ISIS, and Russian goals, but the move has a single silver lining:

It has badly undermined Netanyahu’s position in Israeli politics.

The Israelis are universally freaked out by this move. This is a strong indicator of how unreliable an ally Trump can be and that matters a great deal to Israel.

Netanyahu has made his recent reputation on his ability to move Trump in directions that favor Israel. Not this time. Not only wasn’t Netanyahu unable to head this off, he wasn’t given any indication that this move was coming.

Not that he’s alone, of course. Trump not only didn’t warn Netanyahu, he didn’t warn our State Department.

Or the Pentagon.