Commentary: Trump has managed to make bad policy choices on Syria even worse
by Frances Z. Brown, Los Angeles Times
Oct 09, 2019
3 minutes
Over the course of 36 hours, President Trump managed to change U.S. policy on Syria three times.
First, he announced a U.S. troop withdrawal from Syria on Sunday night after a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a move that would pave the way for a Turkish assault on Kurdish forces in Syria. He then seemingly reversed himself on Monday morning, threatening to "totally destroy and obliterate" the Turkish economy if Turkey did anything that he considers "to
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