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Trump Did Not Betray The Kurds

Trump Did Not Betray The Kurds
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The near-consensus view of US President Donald Trump’s decision to remove American special forces from the Syrian border with Turkey is that Trump is enabling a Turkish invasion and double-crossing the Syrian Kurds who have fought with the Americans for five years against the Islamic State group. Trump’s move, the thinking goes, harms US credibility and undermines US power in the region and throughout the world.

There are several problems with this narrative. The first is that it assumes that until this week, the US had power and influence in Syria when in fact, by design, the US went to great lengths to limit its ability to influence events there…

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1 comment

mlopez October 12, 2019 at 7:38 pm

You will never get any in depth analysis and coverage in the MSM. C Glick however, can always be depended upon.

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