James Jeffrey, the Never-Trumper brought into the State Department by Mike Pompeo to run Syria policy — and who bragged shortly after retiring from the job a couple of weeks ago that he lied to Trump about the number of U.S. troops in Syria — now says that Trump did a great job in the Middle East. Jeffrey claimed in an interview with the Times of Israel that the Trump Administration had managed to “devise a strategy to stop what appears to be a disastrous strategic loss of both Iraq and Syria to the forces of terror…. in the Middle East.”
He asserted that he and his colleagues were leaving the region in a better state than it was when Trump entered office, and that while it is falling into competent hands under Joe Biden, American allies in the region may come to miss the more polarizing, outgoing commander-in-chief.
