Directly following a phone call between president Trump and Turkey’s president Erdogan in December 2018, Trump tweeted his new foreign policy: that the U.S. would be withdrawing troops from Syria immediately, and that ISIS was vanquished! That reversal, reached without counsel from military advisors, was a shock to our military and our allies. Erdogan stressed to Trump that the “Syrian Kurds were the terrorists, and he threatened to send troops across the border to attack U.S-allied Kurdish forces in northeast Syria. That decision coincided with the administration’s notification to Congress that Turkey’s long-sought purchase of U.S- produced Patriot-missile defense-batteries had been approved.” Defense Secretary James Mattis and Brett McGurk, top U.S. envoy for Global Coalition, resigned in rebuke of Trump’s “rash and unwise” decree. The Russian-Assad-Iranian-Turkey’ alliance’ is gratified. We are abandoning the Kurdish forces we trained and repeatedly vowed to stand behind. “Regardless of Trump’s questionable motivations and lack of strategy”, we should focus on expeditiously exiting safely.
Trish Forsyth Voss
Jan 30 2019
How should the U.S. prodeed militarily in respect to Syria?
Directly following a phone call between president Trump and Turkey’s president Erdogan in December 2018, Trump tweeted his new foreign policy: that the U.S. would be withdrawing troops from Syria immediately, and that ISIS was vanquished! That reversal, reached without counsel from military advisors, was a shock to our military and our allies. Erdogan stressed to Trump that the “Syrian Kurds were the terrorists, and he threatened to send troops across the border to attack U.S-allied Kurdish forces in northeast Syria. That decision coincided with the administration’s notification to Congress that Turkey’s long-sought purchase of U.S- produced Patriot-missile defense-batteries had been approved.” Defense Secretary James Mattis and Brett McGurk, top U.S. envoy for Global Coalition, resigned in rebuke of Trump’s “rash and unwise” decree. The Russian-Assad-Iranian-Turkey’ alliance’ is gratified. We are abandoning the Kurdish forces we trained and repeatedly vowed to stand behind. “Regardless of Trump’s questionable motivations and lack of strategy”, we should focus on expeditiously exiting safely.
Trish Forsyth Voss
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