Kael Weston: Trump’s actions have left us less safe than we were last week

A decade ago, I lived full-time in Iraq as a U.S. State Department official. One winter day, I joined a U.S. Army battalion commander on patrol in Sadr City, home to a million impoverished Iraqis and site of fierce fighting between the U.S. military and Tehran-backed Shia militias.Looking toward a nearby curb, I noticed a large chunk of concrete had recently been blasted away. The lieutenant colonel explained that just days before a new variety of advanced roadside bomb – technology honed