TIL Desk/World/Washington/ America cannot be the policeman of the world, US President Donald Trump has said during his first visit to Iraq as he urged other countries to share responsibilities. Trump, on a surprise visit to US troops stationed in Iraq, defended his decision to pull American troops out of war-torn Syria, saying there would be no delays.
“The United States cannot continue to be the policeman of the world,” Trump told reporters at a military base west of Baghdad, soon after he addressed American soldiers. This is his first visit to Iraq as the US President. He is accompanied by First Lady Melania.
Trump vowed for a “harsh response” from his administration if there was to be another terrorist attack on America. “If anything should happen at all, nobody will ever have suffered the consequences they had suffered,” Trump told American troops at a military base west of Baghdad.
“It’s not fair when the burden is all on us, the United States,” he said, as he defended his decision to withdraw troops from Syria and let regional countries, Turkey in particular, to complete the work of finishing the remnants of the ISIS terror group and Saudi Arabia to invest in development of the war-ravaged country.
