Posted on 01/06/2019 10:00:00 AM PST by SeekAndFind
President Donald Trump will not withdraw American troops from northern Syria until the Turkish government guarantees it won’t then attack Syrian Kurdish forces that have been critical allies in the fight against ISIS, national security adviser John Bolton said Sunday.
Bolton said a commitment from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that protects the Kurds after American forces exit is something Trump is demanding, and that it’s just one of several conditions that have to be met before U.S. troops leave.
“There are objectives that we want to accomplish that condition the withdrawal,” Bolton said.
He spoke to reporters traveling with him to Israel and Turkey as he tried to clarify Trump’s Syria withdrawal policy for allies. He’s meeting with Israeli officials Sunday and Monday, and with Turkish officials, including Erdogan, on Tuesday.
Since Trump abruptly announced on Dec. 19 that all U.S. forces in Syria would exit immediately, administration officials have shifted the timing to say it would happen more slowly. Officials are now setting a series of conditions for withdrawal that must first be met, which Bolton described as “policy decisions that we need to implement.”
“This is a cause and effect mission,” Bolton said. “Timetables or the timing of the withdrawal occurs as a result of the fulfillment of the conditions and the establishment of the circumstances that we want to see. And once that’s done, then you talk about a timetable.”
Bolton also indicated that the U.S. troop withdrawal will not be a complete drawdown, as Trump had promised. Instead, he discussed a withdrawal of American forces from northern Syria, where most of the estimated 2,000 U.S. troops are based, while leaving some of them in the southern part of the country.
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Oh, great.
Here we go....
I am simply disgusted by this.
Will John Bolton demand that the Opium Trade routes from Afghanistan to the World be secured before we withdraw from there too??
Bolton the Sodomite whatever (posing as marriage) supporter canceling the withdrawal. Can’t wait till Trump rids himself of neocons in his admin
Who the hell cares? You can never trust a saracen anyway.
Who is running the government? Globalist ? Or the man we elected? This is confusing. I suggest the latter fire the former.
W. T. F.
Do they know how bad this makes Trump look?
I amgoing to stick with what President Trump said vs the well known liars at NBC and Globalist John Bolton.
If this is true, then this is a very disappointing development.
Mutlu Civiroglu @mutludc
https://twitter.com/mutludc/status/1081959508962885632
ABD Ulusal Güvenlik Danışmanı Bolton: Suriye’deki Kürtlerin güvenliği sağlanmadan çekilmeyeceğiz @bbcturkce
Translated from Turkish by Microsoft:
US National security adviser Bolton: We won't withdraw @bbcturkce without ensuring the safety of Kurds in Syria
TF: my earlier comment> (This is good news, we have had no better allies than N Syrian Kurds anywhere in the Middle East)
Someone said on an earlier thread, bring our troops home, leave Bolton there.
If a Trump isn’t a globalist, why does he keep hiring them?
We won’t withdraw @bbcturkce without ensuring the safety of Kurds in Syria
TF: my earlier comment> (This is good news, we have had no better allies than N Syrian Kurds anywhere in the Middle East)
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I agree with you, Tex. And eventually, Erdogan will agree to it, I believe.
Fire the bastard.
That ,Sir Is a fair question. I see him as more a pragmatist than doctrinaire on that but he is “ America first” at his core and I think he is learning. He ferreted out kelly and Mattis as deep state globalist and canned their butts. He was a business man and not sure who were friend or foe but he is on the right track. Bolton is a pro Iraq invading neocon globalist and a bad pick.
President Bolton
Vice President Pompeo
Undercutting Trump at every chance
It would be a refreshing change if we actually did something in the Middle East that didnt end up leaving the Kurds swinging in the wind. But fighting a civil war in Syria seems like a roundabout way to protect the Kurds. How about we just move some troops to their lands and make it clear if the Turks attack they’ll regret it. And other than that, just chill.
A pledge from Erdogan, or any Islamist, is worth about as much as a pledge from Chuckie Schumer or Kim Jong Un. Nothing.
I don’t propose a solution. There are pieces we don’t yet see.
We wait. (I hate waiting)
He will only do so, it the right forces pressure him heavily.
He is not a reasonable player. He is an extremely evil man working for great evil.
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