Turkey to conduct its military operation has essentially let down a very valuable and loyal ally to the United States the u. S. President has been pushing back on that suggestion also noting in this tweet that in his views the turkish people as well as the currents have been fighting in his words forever and the United States should not be injecting itself into an historic conflict now having said that the United States president also caution in turkey if there are what the u. S. President believes are inhumane or large civilian casualties he has endorsed a movement in the u. S. Senate by a member of his own Republican Party as well as a democratic senator to sanction turkey that efforts could be voted on as early as next week would not only potentially limit military sales to turkey but could also say at the highest levels including president won his Financial Assets and even limit the ability for the leadership to obtain visas to enter the United States still ahead on aljazeera. Murd
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A different situation but no one should be forcibly resettled into this own or any other place we see lebanon also forcibly resettling syrians from lebanon and thousands of those people who are being resettled and sent back to syria are being detained by the assad regime are being tortured and we have at least. 2000 people who we have documented who have been sent back by the lebanese authorities and the same thing is happening across the board and you know you spoke of the role of the International Community and how much its that the Syrian People down will target has to stand with the e. U. With the u. N. With those organizations provide billions of dollars to turkey to help support Syrian Refugees so what are you asking the e. U. And the u. N. To do here. Well without a doubt turkey has bared a significant burden with the Syrian Refugees and i think turkey turkey israel has been positive in allowing 3 and a half 4000000 refugees to stay and its in turkey for all of this time however
The deliberations on syria they were held in the closed consultation room next to the chamber perhaps they didnt want yet more division on the latest phase of syrias long war to be seen in public behind closed doors they couldnt agree on words for a joint statement instead the u. S. Ambassador tried to sum up her countrys position after days of controversy and confusion in washington on whether President Trump had given the green light to the Turkish Operation we just finished our consultations on syria and as the president has made abundantly clear the u. S. Has not in any way endorsed the decision that the government of turkey to mount a military incursion into northeast syria. President trump has emphasized to the government of turkey that they bear full responsibility for protecting the kurdish population and religious minorities including christians and ensuring that no humanitarian crisis takes place the ambassadors of e. U. Countries who sit on the Security Council we also came
Will extend their influence and that the u. S. Administration is ignoring russias ability to leverage its dominant position in syria now to amass power and influence across the wider middle east and then there was a clear swipe at the president from using a phrase that trump has used many many times in the past but connell said that as neal isolationism grows the rhetoric of endless wars will be heard again and again and this is a phrase that President Trump has used repeatedly with regard to the u. S. President presents in the middle east but mcconnell saying that endless war the rhetoric aside war is not simply end they are either one or lost now of course in the midst of this Foreign Policy crisis for the United States the president is in countering a lot of criticism from his fellow republicans in the senate at the same time hes going through the impeachment process in the house and theres certain implications for his loss of support in the senate even though the impeachment proces