.@timkaine “We're protecting oil fields but not our allies from ISIS. We're pulling out of the region, but we're also putting thousands more troops in Saudi Arabia. We're pulling out of the region, but we’ve in fact added 14,000 more troops to the gulf since May.” 1/
“We're pulling back from the safe zone that we spent months trying to implement just to put Russia in charge of that safe zone. We're empowering dictators but we're abandoning allies. We're sending the signal.. the reason we're putting troops there is, as the President said,” 2/
“‘because they'll pay for it,’ sending the message that our military is now mercenaries... The withdrawal has made it very difficult for anybody to think about partnering with us in the future against a threat like ISIS,”
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