BREAKING: In an extraordinary Sunday night statement, the White House announces that the US "will no longer be in the immediate area" of Northern Syria, allow Turkey to launch an invasion in the region and give Turkey responsibility for captured ISIS fighters in the area. pic.twitter.com/tUES5gsqtF— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 7, 2019
So, under the auspices of one Donald J. Trump (who is unhappy because he thinks impeachment will look bad on his resume), the US is abandoning the Kurds, our allies in the fight against ISIS, to a potential slaughter by Turkey and giving Turkey "responsibility for captured ISIS fighters in the area" which basically just sounds like masses of them will be dumped out on the street available to return to ISIS(and ISIS is still active, weakened, but still a threat) or wherever else. And he's doing it despite warnings that this really doesn't further US policy interests? Announced late on a Sunday?
I'm not saying that Trump is playing foreign policy games to screw with the news cycle because he doesn't understand that nations have interests and no policy moves, but especially not foreign policy moves, should be conducted in one's own self interest, but yeah, I'm kind of saying that because I've said it before. I'm not even above speculating that Erdogan (or Putin, because why not?) may have made this choice easy for Trump, even while it is misery for the region.
Trump thinks it's being impeached that will look bad. He does not appreciate that what is bad are the many ways he is impeachable and untrustworthy. The message this sends to our allies: "Don't count on the United States." Or maybe, "Don't count on the United States (unless it benefits Trump's whims in some way)."
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