Trump says he'll keep U.S. troops in Iraq to 'watch Iran'

President Trump on CBS

"[O]ne of the reasons I want to keep [a U.S. military presence in Iraq] is because I want to be looking a little bit at Iran because Iran is a real problem," President Trump said on Face the Nation Sunday.

"I want to be able to watch Iran," Trump continued. "All I want to do is be able to watch. We have an unbelievable and expensive military base built in Iraq. It's perfectly situated for looking at all over different parts of the troubled Middle East rather than pulling up."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.