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Timothy Furnish holds a Ph.D. in Islamic, World and African history (Ohio State, 2001). He is a former U.S. Army Arabic linguist and, later, civilian consultant to U.S. Special Operations Command. He’s author of books on the Middle East and Middle-earth; history professor; and sometime media opiner (as, for example, on Fox News Channel’s “War Stories: Fighting ISIS“).
Last week President Trump announced his decision to withdraw fewer than 100 Special Forces soldiers from northern Syria. Since then, both the Left and Right have been playing Brutus to his Caesar. Most commentators, on both sides of the spectrum, are…