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This morning, my colleagues and I returned from a bipartisan congressional trip to Turkey, Afghanistan, and the Syria-Jordan border. We met with security, intelligence, and diplomatic leadership from our U.S. forces and foreign partners. spanberger.house.gov/news/documents…
Over and over, we heard about the danger posed to Americans if we abandon our Kurdish allies, the Syrian Defense Forces. The SDF has been our primary ally on the ground in the fight against ISIS, working and dying alongside American troops.
To walk back our support of the SDF and invite Turkey to act aggressively in northern Syria is a misguided & catastrophic blow to our national security interests.
Not only will this decision further destabilize the region, it will make it more difficult for the U.S. to recruit allies and partners in our ongoing counterterrorism efforts.
I urge the administration to work with the same U.S. leaders we met with this week, and develop a long-term strategy for countering the terrorist threat in Syria. spanberger.house.gov/news/documents…
