Bipartisan Criticism of US Withdrawing From Syria, Abandoning Kurds

Bipartisan Criticism of US Withdrawing From Syria, Abandoning Kurds
Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on May 15, 2019. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Mark Tapscott
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WASHINGTON—Democrats and Republicans in Congress rarely agree, but that changed dramatically on Oct. 7 after President Donald Trump decided to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, while allowing Turkey to move into the war-torn country and abandoning Kurdish forces that helped defeat ISIS.

“The Syrian Kurds stood with the United States in the fight against ISIS, and this president just betrayed them in a tweet,” said Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), who is the ranking minority member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Mark Tapscott
Mark Tapscott
Senior Congressional Correspondent
Mark Tapscott is an award-winning senior Congressional correspondent for The Epoch Times. He covers Congress, national politics, and policy. Mr. Tapscott previously worked for Washington Times, Washington Examiner, Montgomery Journal, and Daily Caller News Foundation.
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