come to the negotiating table. recently retired army major malcolm frost says it is too late. the deed has been done. so what happened, we ve lost our reputation. we have abandoned an ally and thirdly, those isis prisoners are going to escape. many already have. u.s. officials tell me turkish artillery units are firing on kurdish-run isis prisons in syria. turkey is responsible for any isis resurgence. observers note turkey used joint patrol with the u.s. military in the past few weeks to essentially map the kurdish positions before reneging on the agreement after dunford stepped down. dunford spent most time negotiating with the turkish military to keep it from invading northern syria and interfering with the anti-isis
thirdly, those isis prisoners ae going to escape. many already have. u.s. officials tell me turkish artillery units are intentionally firing on curtis curtis run prisons and blaming president erdogan for an unnecessary invasion, mark esper says turkeys was possible for any isis resurgence. in a statement, expert accused turkish president speethirteen of committing war crimes that have resulted in the release of many dangerous isis detainees. in turkey s vice presidents of the u.s. has been backing terrorists in the syrian kurds and says that they are linked to an insurgent group, and turkey, responsible for thousands of deaths since the mid- 80s. if u.s. and british or any other country around the world ally with the terrorists, we hope that they do have a misunderstanding of who they are. nato
we say in the military. in this case, if we don t keep the pressure on, then isis will resurge. it is absolutely a given that they will come back. sandra: james mattis warning that president trump s abrupt withdrawal of u.s. troops from northern syria could lead to an isis resurgence. let s bring in walid phares. what does it mean for an isis comeback? well, to release tens of thousands, maybe hundred at this point in time from detention centers is already a major development but let s go back to the genesis of it. how that happened. our allies, kurd and iraqis have detained over the past four to five years thousands of isis fighters and families. problem is, nobody addressed what to do with them. one of the ideas i have developed at the time was let s have an international coalition kind of court and detention centers not leave it under
reports are isis supporters being held in detention camps have escaped during the ongoing chaos raising international alarm of an isis resurgence. isis is not defeated. we have got to keep the pressure on isis so they don t recover. we may want a war over and declare it over. the enemy gets a vote we say in the military. i think the escaped isis fighters will form the colonel of a new terrorist threat in the entire region. we have yet to see what s going to happen as a result of that, but we re not going to like the results. it s a shameful chapter. there is no rationale behind what mr. trump has done. this is the most inept diplomatic team i ve ever seen at work in washington. joining us now, nbc news foreign correspondent on the ground in iraq.
responsibility for a bomb that exploded in the regional capital. kurdish fighters said they had thwarted a second attempted jail break from a detention camp for families of islamic state members. trump neglecting our allies and allowing the threat of an isis resurgence raises questions of where his true allegiance lies. julia davis writing in the daily beast, quote, president trump s surprise decision to abandon the kurds and sign off on turkey s operation in syria drew condemnation in the west but was cheerfully welcomed in russia. and for those who follow russia closely, the contrast revived the ghost of helsinki. everyone s back. you know, and we ve been talking all hour, the thread that runs through this hour is that there are no coincidences once again a major foreign policy debacle in the eyes of republican and democratic national security officials and elected officials and a clear win for russia.