Kurds Ask U.S. Troops to Protect Them from Turkish Invasion in Syria

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : HTS maintains non-aggressive relations with both Turkey and the Syrian Kurds.
42% : I saved a lot of lives," Trump added.
41% : "Well, we had 5,000 troops along the border and I asked a couple of generals," Trump said, recalling his decision to withdraw from Syria during his first term in office.
28% : "The generals allegedly told Trump his forces would be "wiped out," so he "moved them out.
25% : "Abdi predicted that Trump would hesitate to abandon Syria, both because of the rapid changes on the ground in the past two months and a deadly Islamic State attack in the U.S. homeland on New Year's Eve, targeting New Orleans.
20% : Trump has expressed some hesitation with keeping American troops on the ground in Syria, which leaves them open to potentially lethal attacks from a variety of terrorist groups, including HTS.
19% : During a press conference in December, Trump described the fall of Assad as an "unfriendly takeover" by Turkey and hinted that Turkey itself could pose a threat to American forces in Syria.
19% : While Trump has couched his decision not to send ground reinforcements to the Kurds as necessary to protect American lives, representatives of the outgoing administration of President Joe Biden this week lent credence to Turkey's insistence that Kurdish forces are a terrorist threat.

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