Of course their is a partisan divide among Republicans and Democrats. Among Democrats, 57 percent say they feel it was wrong to remove U.S. troops from the region. Despite criticism from leading Republicans, only 16 percent of GOP supporters think the withdrawal was...
Syria
The Borg Freaks Out guest Joanne Leon
Foreign Policy Focus and Around the Empire's latest swapcast covers the borg's meltdown because some US troops are leaving Syria. Joanne and Kyle recap what has happened in the past two weeks in Syria. The US announced pulling some troops from the Turkey/Syria border....
Syrian Kurds, Damascus Reach Deal in Russia-Backed Talks
Syrian ground troops moving north to confront invading Turkish forces is related to a deal that was reached by the Kurdish SDF and the Assad government, in talks brokered by Russia and held on a Russian air base. The deal sees the Kurds unilaterally handing over two...
The Controversy Is Not Really About the Syrian Kurds, But Iran’s Presence There
That's why Obama started this war in the first place, of course. And the Israelis' concern now is that since the war backfired and Iran has a greater presence in Syria than ever before, that Trump could follow-up his withdrawal from northeastern Syrian Kurdistan with...
Andrew McCarthy Warns Trump: Senate Republicans Could Turn On Him Over Syria
Turn on him in the impeachment crisis, that is. Writes Andrew McCarthy, former federal prosecutor and prominent defender of Trump during Russiagate, and foreign policy hawk in the National Review: Bad impeachment news for Trump – GOP senators enraged by Turkey’s...
Should the USA pull out of Syria?
President Trump’s decision to relocate approximately 50 U.S. troops within Syria set off a firestorm of outrage and disbelief. I am not particularly interested in the responses of the usual suspects. I am interested, however, in the commentary of fairly well-known...
Good Rand Paul: Get Out of Syria Now
The View ladies though, they saw on TV that that would be bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lplf9njokI&feature=youtu.b
10/11/19 Danny Sjursen on Syria and the End of America’s Forever-Wars
Scott talks to Danny Sjursen about President Trump's withdrawal of U.S. troops from northeastern Syria, which Sjursen views as the first instance of him actually following through on a major promise made on Twitter. Sjursen says that to surprise the generals and war...
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