“He died like a dog. He died like a coward,” remarked US President Donald Trump in 2019, when US Special Operations forces hunted down Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the dreaded terrorist group ISIS, in a daring nighttime raid in Northwestern Syria. In 2025, Donald Trump welcomed Ahmed al-Sharaa, the interim President of Syria, to the Oval Office.
If gruesome and dastardly acts of terrorism gave Donald Trump, the moral imperative to eliminate al-Baghdadi—upon his orders—it baffles sane minds as to how he could conduct a diplomatic and political volte face by inviting Ahmed al-Sharaa, a wanted terrorist who had a $10 million bounty on his head, and went under the nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Joulani in one of the sensational overtures in US’s political history. It also raises profound questions about the consistency and direction of U.S. foreign policy.
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