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Our Kurdish Allies Are Being Slaughtered. The Worst May Be Yet to Come

With the withdrawal of U.S. troops from northern Syria, Trump has made it infinitely harder, if not impossible, for the United States to do what he claims he wants: ask allies to share in the burden of national security.

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By John Kerry
Published on Oct 17, 2019

Source: Boston Globe

In the 11 days since President Trump’s tweets announced a sudden exit of US special forces from Northern Syria, greenlighting an armed incursion by Turkish forces emboldened by our precipitous abandonment of the ally who had fought the Islamic State on our collective behalf, we’ve witnessed the wholesale dysfunction of American politics to the detriment of our interests, values, and credibility. It’s gotten worse by the day. The events on Wednesday represented the low watermark at an already low point in American diplomacy.

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This article was originally published in the Boston Globe.

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John Kerry
John Kerry

Nonresident Scholar, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program

John Kerry is a nonresident scholar the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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