The president seems remarkably able to reverse course on any policy position \u2014 even the Middle East VIDEO<\/b>
President Donald Trump may have and with his missile attack on Syria last week, but that doesn\u2019 t mean he won\u2019 t shock us even further by how far he is willing to go with a country with which he once insisted he would never militarily engage. National Security Adviser General H. R. McMaster is pushing for President Trump to significantly increase the number of ground troops\u00a0in Syria, . The current draft of a war plan would only maintain a modest level of American ground troops in Syria, which McMaster \u2014 as a veteran of the successful surge led by General David Petraeus during the second Iraq War \u2014 believes will increase America\u2019s chances of achieving a permanent victory in the country. Many military brass believe that Obama\u2019s withdrawal of American troops in 2011 was responsible for the subsequent deterioration in that country, Bloomberg noted, as well as the rise of ISIS. Many of\u00a0McMaster\u2019s critics accuse him of wanting to send tens of thousands of new troops into Syria and start a second Iraq War, including White House chief strategist Steve Bannon. Other opposition comes from Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford, and General Joseph Votel from U. S. Central Command, all of whom oppose increasing the number of conventional forces in Syria for various reasons. As a result of the ongoing debate, the draft war plan for defeating ISIS has now been sent to the policy coordinating committee, an interagency group hosted at the State Department.<\/p>\n