National Intrest: Will an impulsive attack accelerate the withdrawal of US troops from Syria?

Will the explosion, which was adopted by the organization of the Islamic state in the city of Manbaj east of Syria on Wednesday, Washington to accelerate the withdrawal of US troops from the country in accordance with the order of President Donald Trump?

A question posed by the National Interest magazine to four American experts came in the form of recommendations that they thought should be incorporated into Washington's policy toward Syria.

The four experts on the withdrawal were divided as to whether they were necessary or not, in the light of recent developments in the region.

The Pentagon has confirmed that two US soldiers, a civil servant in the ministry and a contractor working for the US military in Syria were killed Wednesday and three other soldiers were wounded in the explosion in the northern city of Manbeg.

Sources in the island said the explosion killed 19 people, including nine civilians and gunmen of the Syrian Democratic Forces. The Islamic State Organization adopted the bombing, saying it targeted US and Kurdish forces in the city.

Expert responses
Joshua Landis, a professor at the University of Oklahoma and director of the Center for Middle East Studies, says the threat to American forces is much greater in Manbij, where Turkey and the United States are competing and demanding that the forces protecting the Kurdish people be removed from there.

If America decides to protect any buffer zone between Turkey and Syrian Kurdish areas, more Americans will be killed, he said.

But he warns that Trump's management, whenever it delays troop withdrawals, increases the risk of unnecessarily sacrificing American soldiers.

Landis sees Syria's opposition democratic forces and the Syrian state as soon as they reach an agreement to establish a joint police force to stabilize the country following the US withdrawal.

This is because the failure of the state - as Landis thinks - will make American forces have to run shifts instead of local police.

Cautions
According to Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, what he calls a "prolonged US military occupation" carries innumerable risks. It forces warring parties to collide with each other, isolates Turkey, the US ally, and inflames the feelings of state fighters in Iraq and Syria. With great nuclear power Russia.

On the basis of these caveats, Davis believes that Washington's strategy must change so as to limit the control of territory beyond the borders of the United States and focus more on intelligence gathering to ward off terrorist attacks inside the US.

He concludes that with the defeat of the state organization almost, and Russia was able to establish its feet in western Syria, the United States has achieved all that sought to achieve in Syria to some extent.

However, another expert, Derek Chollet, vice president of the German Marshall Fund and former assistant secretary of defense, disagrees, claiming that the Manbjj attack proves that this is the time to withdraw troops from Syria.

In this regard, he says, the attack confirms that the organization of the state remains a threat, and that Trump was boasting when he announced defeat of the organization and then ordered the withdrawal of US troops immediately.

The former assistant secretary of defense describes the Trump declaration and ordered him to withdraw as "premature." He contrasts with the remarks of his national security adviser John Bolton and his special envoy to Syria, James Jeffrey, that one of the goals of the US mission in Syria is to ensure that all Iranian troops leave and protect the Kurds.

Col. Douglas McGregor believes that engaging in other people's wars is not the task of the US military. According to his claim, those close to the administration will try to exploit the killing of American soldiers in favor of keeping troops there indefinitely.

McGregor's view is that those attempts should strengthen the president's resolve to withdraw US troops from there.