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I'd be inclined to agree. It's very hard to understand what Trump wants, since he seems to have goals that can't simultaneously be achieved. eg, he wanted to tear up JCPOA, but surely that can't be to ease the path for an Iranian bomb--.
--and Iran's regional expansion. Or no rational person would conclude that's his goal. So I can see easily how the team around him would discount his grumbling about US troops being stationed in places that where they needed to be to carry out his goals as,
"Well, he's just not very detail-oriented. The main point is he wants Iran to start acting like a normal country. And of course, if that's what he wants, it doesn't make sense to remove the troops and say, "Welcome Soleimani!"
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