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President Trump has once again done what career politicians and the media won’t: put American security and practical results ahead of hypocrisy and headlines by meeting Syria’s new leader at the White House. This was the first visit by a Syrian president to the White House in modern times, a breakout diplomatic moment that the left is shrieking about instead of asking whether it makes America safer.
Yes, Ahmad al-Sharaa is a complicated figure — he rose as an Islamist rebel, fought U.S. forces in Iraq years ago, even carried a U.S. bounty, and at one time had ties to al-Qaida. But those are the facts of his past, and they do not erase the reality that he broke with global jihadists and has now come to the table to seek a different path for his country.
What matters for American families is what this meeting produced: a concrete opening to bring Syria into the coalition against ISIS, to tamp down regional chaos, and to begin responsibly reopening economic channels so reconstruction can be monitored and leveraged for U.S. interests. The administration announced a targeted 180-day extension of the waiver on Caesar Act sanctions to provide breathing room for diplomacy, and U.S. officials floated a possible security arrangement that could stabilize a volatile border region.
Predictably, the Washington commentariat and some opportunistic politicians screamed “terrorist” and treated the whole thing like a morality play instead of a strategy to prevent another failed intervention. Even when Republicans like Marjorie Taylor Greene raised concerns, President Trump rightly reminded everyone that the presidency must be exercised on a global scale to keep wars off our shores, not as a theater for cable-news outrage.
This is the kind of bold, results-driven diplomacy conservatives should celebrate: pressuring a formerly hostile actor to take responsibility for ISIS detention centers, encouraging the deportation of foreign extremists, and creating openings for U.S. companies to help rebuild vital gas and energy infrastructure under American terms. If America can turn a former foe into a partner against radical terror, that’s a smart use of leverage, not a betrayal of principle.
Let Congress and the American people watch the results before indulging the left’s reflexive moral panic. The White House kept the visit low-profile for a reason — diplomacy often works best outside the pundit circus — and if this leads to fewer terrorists, fewer refugees seeking to crash our borders, and a safer homeland, then hardworking Americans will have been well served.
