Donald Trump Syria Remarks Let Someone Else Fight Over This Long Bloodstained Sand
In a highly controversial move earlier this month, Trump hastily withdrew U.S. troops from northern Syria. The decision, which came after a phone call with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, allowed Turkish forces to advance quickly into Syria, where they targeted the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Turkey has long been in conflict with the Kurds. The U.S. had been fighting alongside the SDF against the Islamic State (or ISIS) for years, a fact that led both Republican and Democratic lawmakers to blast Trump’s decision, accusing him of abandoning a key U....