Posted on 01/07/2019 10:23:30 AM PST by Navy Patriot
President Donald Trump's top security adviser has arrived in Turkey in an attempt to secure a deal to protect Pentagon-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters from rebel forces once supported by the CIA under former President Barack Obama.
White House national security adviser John Bolton's trip to Ankara came just a day after he appeared to reverse the president's calls for a timely pullout from Syria, where the U.S. has led a coalition battling the Islamist State militant group (ISIS) since 2014. Prior to that, the U.S. had offered tacit support for insurgents in the wake of a 2011 rebel and jihadi uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has been accused by the West and its allies of human rights abuses. Some of these same opposition fighters, however, now primarily backed by Turkey, threaten Kurdish fighters that have led the U.S.-backed fight against ISIS on the ground in Syria.
Trump had announced last month that he had ordered the Pentagon to begin pulling U.S. troops out of Syria as ISIS had been defeated. Speaking to reporters in Jerusalem, Bolton said Sunday that "there are objectives that we want to accomplish that condition the withdrawal," as reported by NBC News. This included ensuring ISIS's lasting defeat and protecting Kurdish groups viewed as terrorist organizations by Turkey due to their alleged links to a decades-long separatist insurgency at home.
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Newsweak literary malpractice and propaganda twisted so tightly it screws into another dimension for the single purpose of demonizing President Trump.
As if Erdogan can be trusted to abide by any agreement, or to make good on any assurances.
What? We can’t trust the Caliph?
Trump needs to restrain Bolton, who tries to make deals with greater evil Erdogan but false-flags the lesser evil Assad.
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