Retired Marine general says Trump has 'blood on his hands' for 'abandoning' Kurdish allies

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President Trump made a grave mistake by pulling back troops in Syria last week, allowing Turkey to launch a military offensive against the Kurds, a retired four-star Marine general told CNN on Sunday.

"There is blood on Trump's hands for abandoning our Kurdish allies," Gen. John Allen said. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces worked with the United States for several years to fight the Islamic State, and held control of the northeastern border area. Since the Turkish assault began last week, video footage has emerged purportedly showing Turkish-backed militia fighters shooting Kurdish prisoners. This, Allen said, is a "full-blown ethnic cleansing."

The Kurds oversee prisons holding thousands of ISIS fighters, their families, and supporters, and hundreds escaped during fighting over the weekend. Allen — the former commander of American forces in Afghanistan and former special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS during the Obama administration — said this chaos was "completely foreseeable" and "what happens when Trump follows his instincts and because of his alignment with autocrats."

Allen is also unmoved by Trump's approval of $50 million in aid to Syria. This gesture rings "hollow," he said, and there's no way to say if the money will go where it should. "Who's going to administer it and for whom?" Allen said. "Hundreds of thousands are fleeing and the relief agencies are on the move."

https://theweek.com/speedreads/871497/retired-marine-general-says-trump-blood-hands-abandoning-kurdish-allies

Cadet Bonespurs believes he knows more than the generals.

[Cha]

1. More "blood on his hands'! psycho

already had it from the kids that he kidnapped and died in his custody.. and the innocents who were slaughtered with the AK-15 in his name.

[dchill]

2. On his hands? Hell, he's bathing in it. He loves it.

[world wide wally]

3. Let me ask this question:

We're the troops that pulled out of Syria an abandoned the Kurds Marines?

I don't know how they will ever live that down.

[rusty quoin]

4. I think it's probably to become his biggest crime, Genocide.

[moondust]

5. Just saw another general,

Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling, on CNNi expressing similar concerns including both short-term and long-term adverse consequences. He was a commander in northern Iraq so he knows the area.