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Wow. Former US presidential envoy to ISIS Brett McGurk is implying I have blood on my hands for proposing a Syria plan. What a ludicrous thing to say. Brett is upset we called him out on all the failures, from ISIS’s rise from the ashes in ‘14 to the very mess unfolding today.pic.twitter.com/1YHcgdlRPG
First, I never ran US policy. McGurk did, and he was completely wrong about backing Maliki, the man who let ISIS back into Iraq. That was the single biggest mistake the US ever made after the invasion of Iraq. All the gains accomplished against al-Qaeda in Iraq were squandered.
Interestingly, Obama's team, which included McGurk, accepted that this was a mistake. So they insisted on removing Maliki before providing support for Iraq against ISIS. But ironically put McGurk in charge of the very mess he contributed to. Yet, he kept making more mistakes.
Today, McGurk is lecturing everyone on policy, and the misguided ways of thinking of a conflict. But that's the very tone he had in 2011, when he wrote this disastrous op-ed https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/not-an-end-but-a-beginning-in-iraq/2011/11/03/gIQA1jBqjM_story.html …pic.twitter.com/LypFr1dbwc
McGurk is using that same tone today to dismiss his critics. He and others were warned about this exact mess we're seeing today. We were right. Unfortunately. He was wrong. Repeatedly. But now he and his colleagues are trying to re-write history.
While McGurk was envoy to the international coalition, the Pentagon backed a number of rebel factions now embedded with Turkey. He ran policy when some of the groups he now calls extremists and war criminals were receiving US weapons and money. Not me who has blood on his hands.pic.twitter.com/zJpFnGjfNr
Exactly, thanks Rasha. I proposed 'reasonable'/'minimalist' measures for the SDF & US presence: reform not radically change the SDF; to focus on governance rather than on combating Iran. So, considering that, it's really astonishing.https://twitter.com/RashaAlAqeedi/status/1183533289669308417 …
This is absolutely shameful. He ran freaking policy for years, but it's the Syrian native analyst who never had a position of power who has blood on his hands?
The lack of self-awareness is astounding
Add to that the lack of humility and the nuclear levels of smugness, born of not being held to account for his decisions because of the current disaster zone occupying the White House
Exactly. Well said.
You are missing @brett_mcgurk abysmal record in #Iraq. Just ask the #Iraqis about him.
He is having a nervous breakdown, I suppose....
What is worse is that you have your name next to Lister's.
He should be ashamed of himself !
Well said Hassan!
You have five minutes!
They negotiated with the Taliban ... they invited the Taliban to DC w/o the knoladge of the Afghani govt ... is he serious ?!
So, I guess McGurk's defense at his Senate hearings will be, "it wasn't me...the analysts made me do it" 
I hate to say this about anyone, but I think the evidence will show that McGurk is an anti-Sunni bigot.
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