President Donald Trump is not an interventionist, and will likely keep a "very light footprint" in places like Syria, former adviser Sebastian Gorka said on Friday about the president's statement this week about withdrawing troops.
"It's a Trump model," Gorka told Fox News' "Fox & Friends." "He doesn't believe in massive amounts of U.S. troops deployed around the world."
Instead, Trump's method is to have a "small footprint and then get others engaged," said Gorka.
He added that he knows the National Security Council has been negotiating with Saudi Arabia and other countries to spend money training the anti-Assad resistance fighters in Syria and stabilize the area.
"Don't worry, we are not going to see Iran coming and exploiting it as they did after [former President Barack] Obama pulled our troops out of Iraq," said Gorka.
Trump's plans are not about removing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from office, but instead, to "stop the mass bloodshed."
"This is a civil war that's been going on for seven years now, estimates of half a million people killed, women and children," said Gorka. "It's to stop the bloodshed."
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