The NY Times fails not on fact but on presentation. That's makes its reporting more Liberal, anti-Trump, and Democrat favoring news. I gave an example in another thread. I've copied it here. If you click on the date link, you can see the complete post in the original thread.
So Trump is often just plain wrong about facts, but you blame the NY Times for presenting facts with a biased view.
Also the Kurds were not so much protected by the US soldiers. It were the Kurds that did the fighting against ISIS on the ground and the US helped with material and weapons.
They have prevented US casualties. the protection the US army forces were providing to the Kurds was just there presence... They just had to stay put - no fighting needed.
And as said before ; Democrats and Republicans were against pulling out of Syria as was the US defence staff... Only Trump, Erdogan, Poetin, Assad and Alan Klein thought it was a brilliant idea.