The White House announced that Turkey would move forward with its long-planned incursion into northern Syria, where U.S.-backed Kurdish forces had been fighting ISIS, and ordered U.S. troops to pull out.
risks repeating the Obama administration's reckless withdrawal from Iraq, which facilitated the rise of the Islamic State in the first place," McConnell wrote in the op-ed.
While his piece does not explicitly lay blame at Trump's feet — or even mention his name — it warns that the Trump administration's sudden foreign policy shift "will leave the American people and homeland less safe, embolden our enemies, and weaken important alliances."— following a call between Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — that Turkey would be moving forward with its long-planned incursion into northern Syria, where U.S.
The majority leader has supported Trump's agenda for much of his presidency. But following indications in January that Trump wanted to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan, McConnell sponsored an amendment that "reemphasized the need for sustained U.S. leadership to fight terrorists, and urged that we continue working alongside allies and local forces."
McConnell also wrote: "While the political will to continue this hard work may wax and wane, the threats to our nation aren't going anywhere."
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