I was at the breakfast briefing and this is the top line from @AmbJohnBolton (pretty sure 99% accurate thanks to colleagues with recorders): “A lot of the press coverage about the decisions on Syria kind of missed what the president had in mind.” washingtonpost.com/world/national…
“And certainly encompassed in that is it’s very clear we’re going to withdraw, we want protect american forces during the withdrawal period. But the president also expects we woyld be able to accomplish the destruction of the ISIS territorial caliphate
and other ISIS personnel and facilities that r potentially dangerous to us as we leave.
It’s also very important that as we discuss with members of the coalktion, other countries that have aninterest like isreal and turkey that we epxect that those who have fought w/us in Syria
It’s also very important that as we discuss with members of the coalktion, other countries that have aninterest like isreal and turkey that we epxect that those who have fought w/us in Syria
Syria. particulalrly the kurds but everybody who has fiught with us, is not put in jeopardy by the coalition withdrawal .it’s a point the rpesidnet has made very clear in his discussions with pres Erdogan fo turkey. And we’ll be discussing that here and what that means.
We’ll be talking about the nature of the withdrawal, the continuing presence of very strong us and coalition forces in iraq, and the president’s determination not to see a resurgence of ISIS in Syria or Iraq after the withdrawl ttakes place.”
