French President Emmanuel Macron criticized the United States President Donald Trump on Sunday, over his decision of withdrawal of the US troops from Syria and Afghanistan with a saying that “an ally must be reliable”.
“I deeply regret the decision,” Macron said on Trump’s decision to pullout troops from Syria and Afghanistan.
Last week, Trump has announced the administration would be taking down its troops from Syria, with a tweet “Islamic State” had been now defeated, in fact also announced to pullout the US troops from Afghanistan too.
According to news reports, though, France said it will continue remain in the coalition fighting against ISIS in Syria.
During a meeting with Chadian leader Idriss Deby in N’Djamena, Chad’s capital, Macron said, “To be an ally is to fight shoulder to shoulder.”
The US troop withdrawal from Syria would leave a thousands of Kurdish fighter in the northern Syria, on which Washington has spent years to train and arm them against the ISIS.
A senior Kurdish official on Saturday, called on the US with a saying that its America’s “To be an ally is to fight shoulder to shoulder”.
Over the resignation of the US defence secretary Jim Mattis, Macron paid tribute to him and said, “I want to pay tribute to General Mattis … for a year we have seen how he was a reliable partner.”
Jim Mattis has on Thursday, resigned after Trump announced its troop’s pullout from Syria. Mattis, in a resignation letter wrote: “My views on treating allies with respect and also being clear-eyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held and informed by over four decades’ immersion in these issues.”
Mattis further wrote: “Because you have the right to have a Secretary of Defense whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects, I believe it is right for me to step down from my position.”