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Tensions Running High in Washington Over Impeachment, Syria

Jim Malone

   WASHINGTON - After a thousand days of President Donald Trump in the
   White House, official Washington found itself consumed by the twin
   crises of impeachment and Syria this week.

   Even as the president is trying to fend off congressional Democrats
   moving toward impeachment, he also faces a fierce backlash from
   Democrats and many Republicans over his decision to pull U.S. forces
   out of Syria.

   Trump is used to weathering political storms, but this one is
   particularly intense and comes at a time when he is looking ahead to a
   re-election campaign next year.

   Syria flap

   From the start, Trump has been on the defensive over his decision to
   pull U.S. troops out of Syria.

   "We were supposed to be there for 30 days. We stayed for 10 years, and
   it is time for us to come home. We are not a policing agent, and it is
   time for us to come home," Trump told reporters at the White House on
   Wednesday.

   On Thursday, Vice President Mike Pence announced that the U.S. and
   Turkey had agreed to a cease-fire against Kurdish forces in northern
   Syria. Trump welcomed the development during a trip to Texas, calling
   it "an amazing outcome."

   Trump's abrupt decision to withdraw from Syria drew fire from both
   opposition Democrats and several Republicans, including South Carolina
   Senator Lindsey Graham, often one of the presidents most loyal
   supporters.

   "So this is the president exercising his judgment in a way that I think
   is out of line with the advice he has been given, dangerous, and I hope
   he will reconsider," Graham told reporters at the Capitol on Wednesday.
   

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