More foreign policy humiliation

THIS IS WHAT SURRENDER LOOKS LIKE: “Pentagon plans sharp scaledown in efforts to train Syrian rebels.”  Now that the Russians are on the scene, America is making itself scarce.  Nice.  What signal does this send to our allies, like Turkey and the Kurds?  It says to them that maybe a new sheriff is in town, and that they’d best get with the program of moving away from the U.S. as a reliable partner, and toward Putin.  Regardless of how you feel about the policy aims in the first place, this is not the way these things are supposed to end.  It’s foreign policy humiliation.