President Trump maybe abandoned Syria to the Turks, but not without a few parting Twitter shots.

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First, this situation in northern Syria is at the very least, deeply puzzling.

It is morally troubling.

It's pretty awful all the way through.

Here is CNN reporting.

In a remarkable announcement late on Sunday night, the White House said that the United States

forces in northern Syria would move aside in advance of a planned Turkish military offensive.

The move marks a major shift in U.S. foreign policy effectively gives Turkey the green light

to attack U.S.-backed Kurdish forces, which would make in just the

latest time that we have betrayed the Kurds. Obviously, the United States has repeatedly told the

Kurds that they were our allies and that we were working with them, only to put them in a situation

where they were basically screwed. That happened during the Gulf War in 1991 when George H.W. Bush

called for the Iraqi military and Iraqi people to throw out

Saddam Hussein. And the Iraqi Kurds in northern Iraq then actually stood up and tried to do that,

at which point Saddam Hussein basically gassed them and mowed them down. And the United States

did nearly nothing about any of that. During the late 1990s, during the Clinton administration,

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