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Trump Said What? How Chaos on Turkey, Kurds, and Syria Could Work for U.S.

The United States should not commit massive resources to roll back Iranian influence in Syria. President Donald Trump’s call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have headed that off.

published by
USA Today
 on November 27, 2017

Source: USA Today

President Trump’s phone call last week with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is evidence that the Marx Brothers were a better coordinated bunch than Trump and the others running foreign policy in this administration. The stumbles, bumbles and fumbles reflect a team that still lacks a coherent  strategy toward Syria.

The president reportedly reassured the Turkish president that the U.S. would cease military support to the Kurdish militias. These were the forces the administration relied on, along with U.S. airpower, to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria's  caliphate,  and on which it was pinning its hopes to pressure the Assad regime and contain Iran in Syria...

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