America’s Predictable, Avoidable, Unnecessary Syrian Disaster

Never has a foreign policy decision gone so bad, so quickly, for such bad reasons

Turkish military personnel travel through Tukhar, Syria, on October 14, 2019, as part of Turkey’s continued assault on the Kurds. | Credit: Aref Tammawi (Getty)

In the week since President Trump ordered the U.S. military to stand aside and allow Turkey to invade northern Syria, thousands of ISIS fighters and supporters escaped detention, America’s Kurdish allies have faced…