Bowing to Turkey, Fighting the Democrats

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🗓️ 10 October 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This week, the COMMENTARY crew, down one Noah Rothman, discusses Turkey’s military offensive in Syria, the betrayal of the Kurds, the White House’s political strategy to fight impeachment, and the fate of Bernie Sanders’s campaign. Source

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0:00.0	21
0:25.1	Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Thursday, october 10.
0:30.6	2019 I am John Puthorz the editor of commentary magazine the 70 out year old
0:35.4	monthly event election analysis put it's probably and cultural criticism from a
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0:56.8	Noir Rothman continues to be on vacation so with me in studio senior editor
1:02.9	A. Greenwald hi Abe hi John and in Washington senior writer Christine Rosen
1:07.4	high Christine hi John so um Donald Trump Sunday night announced that we were
1:16.4	withdrawing our protection from on the border between Syria and Turkey for the
1:25.3	Kurds who have been fighting with us in the war on ISIS in and the essentially
1:33.6	the implicit war against Bashar al-Assad in Syria and and that this cork one
1:42.3	might consider this sort of this a cordon of about a hundred people who were
1:46.7	there essentially to prevent the Turks from going after the Kurds who are who
1:53.2	were holding dangerous ISIS fighters in a in a prison that we were no longer
1:59.5	going to function in this fashion withdrawing our haven of protection from
2:06.4	the from the Kurds whom the Turks hate and wish to crush and so we did that
2:15.8	Sunday night out of nowhere and by Tuesday or Wednesday morning the Turks
2:22.2	started going after the Kurds which we objected to was nice to know that we
2:28.0	we issued a strong yeah in the name of the president we issued a strong
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