Backed into a corner, Trump simply doubled down on his wildly unpopular plan
“And wipe out the Kurds? Are you kidding me?! Again, we are abandoning our most loyal allies who did all our fight[ing]. All we did was arm them, and they did all the work.”
Backed into a corner, Trump simply doubled down. “As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey ,” heMonday, demanding that Turkey and Europe take control of monitoring ISIS, before throwing in a boast: “THE USA IS GREAT!”
It was a typical Trump missive, albeit with new levels of grandiosity, not to mention a wildly far-fetched threat. Nor did it have the intended effect. “No matter what President Trump is saying about his decision, it is EXACTLY what President Obama did in Iraq with even more disastrous consequences for our national security,” Graham
well after the president’s attempts at reassurance. “Unlike President Obama, I hope President Trump will reassess and take sound military advice.”with scaling back the number of American troops in Syria, and has been met with dissent, including from former Defense secretarywho stepped down after clashing with the president on the issue. Likewise, his decision on Monday incensed the majority of hawks.
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