Just hours after national security adviser John Bolton told reporters at the United Nations that 2,200 US troops would stay in Syria “as long as Iranian troops are outside Iranian borders,” Defense Secretary Jim Mattis backed him up, signaling that American forces won’t be coming out of the war-torn country anytime soon.
Full quote: “I think we are on the same sheet of music. It is the Geneva process, and the Geneva process has got to come to a conclusion if we’re to see this end. I’ve talked to [Bolton] so far today twice. There is no daylight between his appreciation of the situation and mine.”
