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Turkey, Syria and the Trump Administration
Ishaan Tharoor, foreign affairs writer for The Washington Post, talks about the rising tensions in the Middle East as Turkey weighs potentially invading Syria.
Watching the US relationship with the Kurds since the first Gulf War has been very embarrassing, they are an ally who seem to have come thru again and again, but we have not supported them when they were punished for this, whether it was gassing by Saddam Hussein, or today
— Doug Goodman (@douggoodman802) October 9, 2019