Trump ally Graham will ask president to reconsider Syria withdrawal

• Senator had warned of ‘the way toward a second 9/11’
• Former Afghanistan commander calls Trump ‘immoral’

A senior Republican senator said on Sunday he would try to persuade Donald Trump to reconsider his order for a total US military pullout from Syria. A retired commander of US and Nato troops in Afghanistan, meanwhile, criticised reported plans to withdraw thousands of Americans from that country and said the president himself was “immoral”.

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Source: theguardian