U.S. intelligence chiefs’ de facto message to allies around the world: You’re right; Trump is wrong.
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When President Trump announced his intention to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria in December, shocked U.S. allies warned that the fight against the Islamic State was far from over. Separate European warnings against a U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal were similarly ignored by Trump last year. Earlier, Japan felt obliged to remind the United States that North Korea still posed a serious security risk, even as Trump said that he and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un had fallen “in love.”
In all those cases, the startled reactions by U.S. allies around the world had little impact on the commander in chief in Washington.
But on Tuesday, his own intelligence chiefs directly contradicted Trump on a number of issues and, incidentally, sided with the assessments of their closest partners abroad.
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