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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn campaign stop with evangelical Christians, Trump defends his actions on Syria
Source: Reuters
POLITICS OCTOBER 12, 2019 / 9:35 PM / UPDATED 39 MINUTES AGO
In campaign stop with evangelical Christians, Trump defends his actions on Syria
Jan Wolfe
3 MIN READ
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday defended his decision to withdraw troops from northeastern Syria, telling conservative Christian activists that the United States should prioritize protecting its own borders.
Let them have their borders, but I dont think our soldiers should be there for the next 50 years guarding a border between Turkey and Syria when we cant guard our own borders at home, Trump said in a speech to the Value Voters Summit in Washington, an annual conference of religious conservatives.
Trump was elected in 2016 running on a hard-line immigration policy and has sought to make legal and illegal immigration to the United States more difficult during his more than two years in office, pushing for a wall to be built on the U.S.-Mexico border among other measures.
After a phone call between Trump and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan last Sunday, Trump made an abrupt policy change and ordered out U.S. forces in northeast Syria who had been fighting with Kurdish YPG militia against Islamic State. Within days Turkey began an offensive against the YPG, which it says is a terrorist group backing Kurdish rebels in Turkey.
Syrian Kurds should fight on their own, Trump said at Saturdays event.
Dont forget: they are fighting for their land. They havent help us fight for our land, Trump said. Theyre fighting for their land and thats good, but weve helped them.
-snip-
In campaign stop with evangelical Christians, Trump defends his actions on Syria
Jan Wolfe
3 MIN READ
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday defended his decision to withdraw troops from northeastern Syria, telling conservative Christian activists that the United States should prioritize protecting its own borders.
Let them have their borders, but I dont think our soldiers should be there for the next 50 years guarding a border between Turkey and Syria when we cant guard our own borders at home, Trump said in a speech to the Value Voters Summit in Washington, an annual conference of religious conservatives.
Trump was elected in 2016 running on a hard-line immigration policy and has sought to make legal and illegal immigration to the United States more difficult during his more than two years in office, pushing for a wall to be built on the U.S.-Mexico border among other measures.
After a phone call between Trump and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan last Sunday, Trump made an abrupt policy change and ordered out U.S. forces in northeast Syria who had been fighting with Kurdish YPG militia against Islamic State. Within days Turkey began an offensive against the YPG, which it says is a terrorist group backing Kurdish rebels in Turkey.
Syrian Kurds should fight on their own, Trump said at Saturdays event.
Dont forget: they are fighting for their land. They havent help us fight for our land, Trump said. Theyre fighting for their land and thats good, but weve helped them.
-snip-
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-religion/in-campaign-stop-with-evangelical-christians-trump-defends-his-actions-on-syria-idUSKBN1WS014
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In campaign stop with evangelical Christians, Trump defends his actions on Syria (Original Post)
Eugene
Oct 2019
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"They haven't help us fight for our land," Just like the Trump family has not.
keithbvadu2
Oct 2019
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Docreed2003
(16,863 posts)1. So when has Saudi Arabia fought for "our lands"
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keithbvadu2
(36,828 posts)2. "They haven't help us fight for our land," Just like the Trump family has not.
"They havent help us fight for our land,
Just like the Trump family has not.