Three years ago, candidate Trump promised to get our troops out of the bellicose Middle East. Today President Trump, recognizing that a thousand of our troops have been caught between warring factions in Turkey and Syria, has moved to get them out of harm’s way. He is being accused of abandoning the Kurds to “ethnic cleansing” at the hands of Turkey, one of our supposed “allies.”

If Turkey is about to engage in ethnic cleansing, where is the outrage at the United Nations? Who among America’s friends are stepping up and stepping in to protect the Kurds from this heinous crime? Where is England? Where is Germany? Where is the rage around the free world?

Trump has been warning that America is tired of being the free world’s policeman. So it’s pretty rotten of his fellow Americans to accuse him of “abandoning the Kurds to ethnic cleansing” for pulling our troops out of danger, like he promised he would three years ago.

Ed Collins

West Newton

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