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The backlash to Trump’s decision to pull U.S. troops back from northeast Syria kept hardening on October 11, 2019, as defense officials and Republican critics warned that the move was handing leverage to Turkey and abandoning Kurdish partners. The administration’s explanations were not calming anyone down; they were mostly convincing critics that the White House was improvising after the fact.
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The backlash to Trump’s decision to pull U.S. troops back from northeast Syria kept hardening on October 11, 2019, as defense officials and Republican critics warned that the move was handing leverage to Turkey and abandoning Kurdish partners. The administration’s explanations were not calming anyone down; they were mostly convincing critics that the White House was improvising after the fact.
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The backlash to Trump’s decision to pull U.S. troops back from northeast Syria kept hardening on October 11, 2019, as defense officials and Republican critics warned that the move was handing leverage to Turkey and abandoning Kurdish partners. The administration’s explanations were not calming anyone down; they were mostly convincing critics that the White House was improvising after the fact.
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