U.S. withdrawing last troops from northern Syria

“I spoke with the president last night after discussions with the rest of the national security team and he directed that we begin a deliberate withdrawal of forces from northern Syria,” Esper told host Margaret Brennan on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”Esper said: “It’ll be a deliberate withdrawal and we want to conduct it as safely and quickly as possible.”

“It's a very terrible situation over there,” Esper told Brennan. “A situation caused by the Turks by President [Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan. Despite our opposition they decided to make this incursion into Syria. And at this point in time in the last 24 hours we learned that they likely intend to expand their attack further south than originally planned and to the west.“It's terrible. It's a terrible situation. We condemn it. We have condemned it,” he said.

“Our role in Syria was not to defend the Kurds,“ Mnuchin said. “You have a long-standing conflict between people helping us with ISIS and Turkey which is a NATO ally. We've put them on warning. The president has authorized me to shut down the Turkey economy and we can do that at a moment's notice on his command.“

You will be forever vilified for this betrayal .... resignation was the moral move !

If this is what “winning” looks like, then we are losing.

US global goodwill built with WWII blood has now been completely erased. Putin and Xi waiting on the sidelines to start cashing in. Biggest ever shot in the foot. POTUS

vvanwilgenburg Trump is a disgusting idiot, thousands of men and women sacrificed their lives to make the world safe from ISIS. Turkey freeing ISIS and murdering the Kurds. This is Trumps doing.

Genocide GenocideTrump TrumpGenocide

Terrible!!!!

AAhronheim The word Esper is fumbling for is 'retreat' not 'evacuate'.

vvanwilgenburg Betrayal complete

Well WHERE ARE ALL THE PEOPLE THAT THINK THEY Really UP STAND AS AMERICANS ⁉️⁉️⁉️ TRUMP HAS TURNED HIS YELLOW BACK WITH A WHITE STRIPE DOWN THE MIDDLE, ON OUR ALLIES AND HAVING TROOPS Slaughtered‼️‼️‼️‼️IMPEACH YELLOW TRUMP‼️‼️‼️

1000 isis terrorists now on the loose to board planes to the US. gop anarchy has no bounds. trump, joni 'putin' ernst, chuck grassley, and kim reynolds will board flights for russia once isis gets here and unleashes mayhem. traitors anarchy

Evacuated with their tails between their legs like happened in Vietnam in 1975 and Somalia, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia. When things go boom the politicians want the boys and girls to come home asap. No successful wars for the US since WW2.

NordhausenFrank And leave the Kurds to die. The 'Great USA' is running scared of a tinpot dictator. They should be bolstering up their troops, not running away.

NordhausenFrank Das ist ein feiges Pack. Niemand kann sich auf Verspechungen der USA verlassen. Also ausser solche Verbrecher, wie RTErdogan z.B.

Is this a deal Trump made with Putin?

Have no fear, Trump's on it:

Trump is handing Syria and ISIS over to Russia and Erdogan. WHY?

The US has ceded world dominance to undemocratic nations and terrorists; it acted in a foolish and cowardly manner, abandoning allies on the battlefield. The US lost any ability to gain or maintain alliances; it gained generations of enemies. Pull nukes from US bases in Turkey.

AboutTime

Russia is behind attacks. Trump says you're welcome master Putin.

So damned glad I retired before that stupid asshole was my CIC. There is no way I could stomach being a mercenary for one of the worst people to ever live.

He didn't use the word evacuate, but it's the right word. Or, 'abandon our allies' would have worked.

Helicopters on roofs again?

realDonaldTrump golfs, troops get shelled and our allied Kurds die. Nice work for a president.

If not killed by Turkey first.

Big mistake to leave the Kurds.

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