...to help build up its fragile democracy and reduce the terrorist threat to the West."
What I heard President Trump say was that the US would no longer be engaged in nation building, but intended simply to win. That sounds like reducing a terrorist threat by whatever means is necessary, it does not sound like the US is any longer interested in "building up a fragile democracy". It isn't a NATO situation and "by whatever means" will increase radicalisation and international terrorism - we should stay out of it.