The televangelist argued that withdrawal from northern Syria will embolden enemies of the U.S. around the globe to seize more disputed territory and make us seem unreliable to our allies.
President Trump's decision to remove U.S. troops from northern Syria has drawn criticism from many of his allies, including evangelist Pat Robertson, who compared it to the United Kingdom appeasing Hitler in the 1930s., Robertson launched into a rebuke of Syrian withdrawal where he made a surprising historical analogy.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," he began."In 1938, the British prime minister, after getting promises from Hitler comes back and says, 'there is peace in our time.'" That meeting between Neville Chamberlain and Hitler granted the Sudetenland to the German government in exchange for assurances that the Nazis would not push further into Europe. Six months later, the German army occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia and were in Poland by the end of 1939.Robertson believes that American withdrawal from the region will embolden other enemies to make plays for territory much like Hitler did, stating"The Kurds, we have abandoned them.
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