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https://www.axios.com/syria-troop-withdrawal-trump-allies-kurds-d0686854-ff4b-468e-b012-8effbae49609.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=1100
A Syrian Kurdish woman waves the flag of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) during a demonstration against Turkish threats in Syria near the Turkish border. (Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images)
Jonathan Swan, Margaret Talev
5 mins ago
President Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. military from northern Syria abandoning the Kurds to what many believe will be slaughter at the hands of Turkey is shaking the already fragile situation with Republicans who have been defending him.
Why it matters: Key senators Trump counts on to have his back on impeachment and make the case for him on TV chiefly, Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio are horrified by the withdrawal and have attacked the president's move in strategic and moral terms. Trump did not read them in on his decision, and they're reacting furiously just when he may need them most.
Rubio tweeted this stark condemnation: "We degraded ISIS using Kurds [sic] as the ground force. Now we have abandoned them & they face annihilation at the hands of the Turkish military... ISIS could now be reinvigorated when 1000s of jailed fighters break out when the Kurdish guards are forced to leave to go fight Turkey"
Graham went on Trump's favorite morning show, Fox & Friends, to express his horror: "This to me is just unnerving to its core. To say to the American people that ISIS has been destroyed in Syria is just not true."
Another Republican lawmaker tells Axios that while it's in Trump's strategic interest to improve U.S.-Turkey relations that slid during Barack Obama's presidency, there could be significant global security risks if tens of thousands of ISIS fighters and refugees in detention camps guarded by Kurdish forces get out.
It's not clear what happens to the camps if Turkey attacks the Kurds and the situation could become a "sh*tshow," the lawmaker said.
"This could be a real problem for [Trump]," said a former senior administration official. "It's adding to the sense of what the f--- is going on?"
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A Syrian Kurdish woman waves the flag of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) during a demonstration against Turkish threats in Syria near the Turkish border. (Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images)
Jonathan Swan, Margaret Talev
5 mins ago
President Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. military from northern Syria abandoning the Kurds to what many believe will be slaughter at the hands of Turkey is shaking the already fragile situation with Republicans who have been defending him.
Why it matters: Key senators Trump counts on to have his back on impeachment and make the case for him on TV chiefly, Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio are horrified by the withdrawal and have attacked the president's move in strategic and moral terms. Trump did not read them in on his decision, and they're reacting furiously just when he may need them most.
Rubio tweeted this stark condemnation: "We degraded ISIS using Kurds [sic] as the ground force. Now we have abandoned them & they face annihilation at the hands of the Turkish military... ISIS could now be reinvigorated when 1000s of jailed fighters break out when the Kurdish guards are forced to leave to go fight Turkey"
Graham went on Trump's favorite morning show, Fox & Friends, to express his horror: "This to me is just unnerving to its core. To say to the American people that ISIS has been destroyed in Syria is just not true."
Another Republican lawmaker tells Axios that while it's in Trump's strategic interest to improve U.S.-Turkey relations that slid during Barack Obama's presidency, there could be significant global security risks if tens of thousands of ISIS fighters and refugees in detention camps guarded by Kurdish forces get out.
It's not clear what happens to the camps if Turkey attacks the Kurds and the situation could become a "sh*tshow," the lawmaker said.
"This could be a real problem for [Trump]," said a former senior administration official. "It's adding to the sense of what the f--- is going on?"
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Syria decision exposes Trump to political peril (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
Oct 2019
OP
ScratchCat
(2,002 posts)1. Can these GOP idiots finally
admit that the only things Donald Trump's foreign policy consider are 1)what Putin wants and 2)his bank account? Nothing else is a concern to this piece of garbage. Jesus, just SIT HIM DOWN and move forward with another candidate for crying out loud. He is giving you out after out after out after out....
at140
(6,110 posts)2. Did he include bringing troops home in his agenda
during the campaign? If true his voters should have known about it.
Although the GOP is full of chickenhawks who like wars going, because that makes money
for the contractors supplying goods and services overseas.
FakeNoose
(32,748 posts)3. This sickens me, we've abandoned our ally
As of today, we have no more allies.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,789 posts)4. By doing that.....The US will no longer back allies....
Trump has sent a degrading message to the rest of the world that the US can no longer fulfill its promises to back allies. If there is no money in it for him, he is not interested.