Senate Majority Leader McConnell says that he plans to introduce a resolution urging President Trump to end the drawdown of US troops from Syria and reconsider his invitation to host Turkish President Erdogan at the White House next month.
“Our resolution acknowledges the vital role that our Kurdish and Arab Syrian partners have played in rooting out and destroying ISIS’s caliphate,” McConnell added. “It recognizes the grave consequences of U.S. withdrawal: the rising influence of Russia, Iran and the Assad regime, and the escape of more than a hundred ISIS-affiliated fighters detained in the region.
"We specifically urge the president to end the drawdown, something that fortunately appears to be underway. We urge a re-engagement with our partners in this region.”, but said he saw no need for U.S. forces to defend America's Kurdish partners. "We never agreed to protect the Kurds for the rest of their lives," Trump told reporters at a Cabinet meeting at the White House."Where is the agreement we have to stay in the Middle East for the rest of humanity?"
Erdogan is expected to visit Trump at the White House in mid-November, though Erdogan said in Istanbul last week that he is also rethinking the trip because “arguments, debates, conversations being held in Congress regarding my person, my family and my minister friends are a very big disrespect” to the Turkish government, Reuters reported.“Erdogan’s attack on our Kurdish partners has served to liberate ISIS prisoners, bolster the Assad regime and strengthen Russia," Sen.
Erdogan’s attack on our Kurdish partners has served to liberate ISIS prisoners, bolster the Assad regime, and strengthen Russia.
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