By Patrick J. Buchanan - And seeing what happened on the carrier Theodore Roosevelt, the coronavirus could have a major impact on U.S. global commitments… Americans were already coming home from the Middle East, drawing down our 12,000 troops in Afghanistan after a deal with the Taliban, and moving our 5,000 troops in Iraq into fewer bases… We have disengaged from the Saudi war against the Houthi rebels in Yemen and are drawing down our forces in Syria… In Libya’s civil war, it is Russians, Turks, Egyptians and Gulf Arabs, not Americans, who are the supporting actors… American soft power is also in retreat from the world.