Deescalate limited military actions and avoid civilian casualties. The white house statement about the content of the phone call between trump and dick and were probably drafted before the conversation took place because it did not reflect the truth well earlier the u. S. Secretary of state denied washington was sending a thirty thousand Strong Security force to the border between syria and turkey u. S. Officials were quoted as saying the force would include kurdish fighters but according to Rex Tillerson those officials misspoke in the plans were misrepresented antiwar activists Richard Becker says the Turkish Military advance in syria has created a difficult situation for the u. S. Of course the Nato Alliance is not a defensive alliance its an office of alliance thats headed by the United States and which so many more countries now belong to since the fall of the soviet union but turkey despite that expansion continues to occupy a very important place in nato and so again here we hav