McConnell joins other Republicans in rebuking Trump's Syria withdrawal
Source: Washington Post
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell publicly rebuked President Trump’s plan to withdraw U.S. troops from northeast Syria, saying that a supermajority in the Senate disagreed with the president’s abrupt announcement.
“I urge the President to exercise American leadership to keep together our multinational coalition to defeat ISIS and prevent significant conflict between our NATO ally Turkey and our local Syrian counterterrorism partners,” McConnell said Monday in a statement. “Major new conflict between Turkey and our partners in Syria would seriously risk damaging Turkey’s ties to the United States and causing greater isolation for Turkey on the world stage.”
McConnell’s statement echoes the comments of several other Republicans who have condemned Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from Syria’s border with Turkey. Several senators said that Trump’s move would abandon U.S.-allied Kurdish fighters ahead of a long-threatened Turkish offensive into northern Syria.
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To the GOP - there IS a fix to this and you are too cowardly to exercise it.
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... privately, he must approve. He will do nothing.
