Syria: Does sudden Trump move undermine US reliability?
Posted on AllSides October 8th, 2019
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What makes for a dependable ally? The U.S.-Kurdish alliance was successful against a common enemy, ISIS. Now President Trump is being criticized for a sudden move that exposes the Kurds in northern Syria.
President Donald Trump’s surprise Sunday night decision to pull U.S. troops from northern Syrian territory and acquiesce to a Turkish offensive there set off alarms in Washington that America was abandoning its Kurdish allies – and opening the door to an ISIS comeback.
It could also be seen as Trump being Trump.
The president has long made...
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