Turkey may have invaded Syria anyway even if Trump kept forces there, Brit Hume
https://www.foxnews.com/media/turkey...me-trump-kurds
the Fox News senior political analyst referenced Trump's weekend phone call with Erdogan,
adding the Turkish leader effectively told the president he was sending troops in either way.
"We don't like it, we're going in," he said, characterizing Erdogan.
"The president was then confronted with that prospect -- and he did what we now know he did. You can make all kinds of arguments about whether he should've done that. It's not clear that if those troops had stayed there, they would've been in anything but danger."
After the president ordered the removal of troops from the area, he received bipartisan backlash for leaving the American-aligned Kurds to fend off Turkish troops themselves.
"It was basically a fait accompli by the time he heard about it," Hume said. "It does look so far like the kind of disastrous situation with atrocities and the rest of it that everyone had feared."
Hume added if American forces remained, there is no reason why Erdogan wouldn't have put them in harm's way.
"They could've been killed by Turkish forces," he said.
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