Skeptics of military intervention were hoping that President Trump would take steps to prevent the United States from being dragged into a wider war. “To calm the situation as much as possible, Trump should urgently redeploy as many U.S. forces stationed in the region as possible out of harm’s way before Iran can retaliate,” said Rosemary Kelanic, the director of the Middle East program at Defense Priorities, a think tank that advocates a restrained foreign policy. Kelanic said Trump should begin by withdrawing American troops from Iraq and Syria, forces particularly vulnerable to an Iranian counterattack.
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