| | | Trump Says U.S. Troops Have Quit Syria. It’s Not True.“I don’t know what the tactical rationale for this is,” says a former Pentagon official as Turkey assaults the Kurds whom the U.S. used to attack ISIS.
Spencer Ackerman Senior Nat’l Security Correspondent
Updated 10.11.19 10:58AM ET / Published 10.11.19 4:44AM ET
To listen to President Donald Trump and his defenders, he’s ended a foolish and previously indefinite war in Syria. “We have no soldiers in the area, you know. We’re getting out of the endless wars. We have to do it,” Trump said Wednesday in the Oval Office. “We are out of there. We’ve been out of there for a while. No soldiers whatsoever.” He added on Thursday, “ We have no soldiers in Syria.”
That is untrue.
Two knowledgeable U.S. officials confirmed to The Daily Beast that after a shocking week that has upended U.S. planning, the U.S. military has only pulled back from northern Syria, not pulled out. It’s abandoned two small observation posts in the area Turkey has now invaded. Around 50 service members have moved to a larger base, something both officials described as a force protection measure—protection amid the already bloody Turkish incursion, protection that no longer exists for the Kurdish force that the U.S. relied upon to assault the so-called Islamic State. None of the roughly 1,000 U.S. troops have actually left Syria since Trump’s fateful Sunday phone call with Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
.... thedailybeast
The US has only moved aside a handful of troops so Trump's Turkish allies can attack our former allies.
BTW Trump just moved troops to Saudi Arabia last month:
Trump Deploys Troops To Saudi Arabia, UAE After Oil Attacks
dailycaller.com/2019/09/20/trump-deploys-troops...
Trump Deploys Troops To Saudi Arabia, UAE After Oil Attacks | The Daily Caller The Pentagon announced it will be deploying U.S. troops and military equipment to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, following Iran's attack on Saudi oil facilities.
So much for ending America's participation in ME wars. |
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