Trump: US never agreed to protect Syrian Kurd allies 'for the rest of their lives'

[groundloop]

Source: ABC News

President Donald Trump on Monday, again defending his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from northern Syria -- clearing the way for Turkish forces to attack U.S.-allied Syrian Kurds -- said, “We never agreed to protect the Kurds for the rest of their lives."

"We have a good relationship with the Kurds, but we never agreed to protect the Kurds. We have fought with them for three-and-a-half to four years. We never agreed to protect the Kurds for the rest of their lives," Trump said speaking to reporters at a White House Cabinet meeting for more than an hour Monday afternoon.

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“We’re bringing our soldiers back home and it’s going to probably work, but if it doesn’t work, you’re going to have people fighting like they’ve been fighting for 300 years, it’s very simple,” Trump said.

He added, "So far there hasn’t been one drop of blood shed during this entire period by an American soldier, nobody was killed, nobody cut their finger, no nothing, and they’re leaving."

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[PJMcK]

1. Hey, Trump

Read a little bit of history. Or have Ivanka read it to you.

You're an idiot.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. The king deplorable.

[abqtommy]

6. I strongly support the previous statements.

[flibbitygiblets]

3. You don't abandon your allies at the drop of a hat. Our military bases were left unattended

so that we had to BOMB them.

And while not a drop of AMERICAN blood has been shed, shall we ask the Kurds about how their blood is doing?

[doc03]

11. Our troops had stones and rotten vegatables

thrown at them as the retreated. What a shame.

[5X]

4. he is saying he fixed the middle east without so much as a paper cut.

[Dopers_Greed]

5. Essentially he's saying "If genocide happens, it happens"

Fucking scumbag

[Arthur_Frain]

9. Two men enter! One man leaves!

Can we put him in thunder dome with Biden please?

[RAB910]

7. those lives got decidedly shorter under Trump

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Yeah, tRump is like "light a person on fire & they'll be warm for the rest of their lives". . . . nt

[Grokenstein]

10. You yanked the rug out from under them, Puppet Sharpie.

You didn't do it because you wanted "to bring the troops home." That was another one of your blatant lies, and the troops have been assigned to other foreign danger zones.

You did it because Vladimir told you to do it.

[cstanleytech]

12. And Twitters greatest twit is yet once again at it. nt

[bdamomma]

13. Another

big lie, he has war crimes on the list now. I wish he just would have a health emergency. Unleashing ISIS about 65,000 are going to unleash their hate on the West.

[jpak]

14. Charlie McCarthy was smarter than Putin's idiot puppet

[Evolve Dammit]

15. His narcicsism "I did it" is so vile. HE didn't do shit. Nothing. The Kurds and our troops did.

[riversedge]

16. Trump is nothing but a STINKING SWAMP RAT