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Payne Distinguished Lecturer . Foreign Affairs Analyst /. Former Presidential Envoy. Served under Bush, Obama, Trump. Dad. .

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    31 Dec 2018

    Today was my last day at the State Department. I wish my former civilian and military colleagues well as they work under extremely difficult circumstances to protect the interests of our great country. It was a privilege to serve alongside them.

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    12 hours ago

    Former Presidential ISIS envoy: For the President to say, let them go at it and we'll come in to fix it, that's total ignorance to the situation on the ground. via

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  3. 15 hours ago

    Warning: Erdogan today says his "safe zone" as agreed with Trump stretches 450x32 kms, from the Euphrates to Iraq. This includes all majority Kurdish and Christian areas of Syria. Senior U.S. officials say it is far narrower. Listen to Erdogan, not Trump.

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  4. 20 hours ago

    As Erdogan prepares to visit Putin, he had this to say today about Trump and his bizarre letter: “We will not forget this lack of respect.”

    Letter to him from "was not in line with diplomatic and political courtesy. We will not forget this lack of respect. This is not a priority for us. But when the time comes we would like it to be known that we will take the necessary steps," says .
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  5. Oct 17

    This is an obscene and ignorant statement. 200k innocent people displaced. Hundreds dead. Credible reports of war crimes. ISIS prisoners escaping. US evacuating and bombing its own positions or handing them to Russia. Two kids in a lot?

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    WATCH: President Trump on Turkey attacking the Kurds: "Sometimes you have to let them fight, like two kids in a lot. You have to let them fight, and then you pull them apart!"
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  6. Oct 17

    Look forward to joining on shortly to discuss the latest situation in Syria.

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    Oct 17

    Mike Pence's request for a temporary cease-fire seemed to be “face-saving, for the U.S. side,” the Turkish official in the Foreign Ministry said. “It was as easy a negotiation as we’ve ever had,” the official said.

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  8. Retweeted
    Oct 17

    Sen. Mitt Romney: "What we have done to the Kurds will stand as a bloodstain in the annals of American history."

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    Oct 17

    Pence said Turkey agreed not to take action against Kobani. Turkish FM denies they agreed to that.

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  10. Retweeted
    Oct 17

    The safe zone will have a depth of 32 km, from east of the Euphrates to the border with , explains .

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  11. Oct 17

    The US just ratified Turkey’s plan to effectively extend its border 30km into Syria with no ability to meaningfully influence facts on the ground. Turkey says it’s the entire border from the Euphrates to Iraq (450x30km) to be controlled by its military forces. Non-implementable.

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    Oct 16

    "I don't say this lightly, and I worked for two years in the Trump administration. He doesn't know what he's doing or talking about. He made this decision on Sunday night without any contingency plan for our troops on the ground." -Brett McGurk, former special presidential envoy

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    Oct 16

    "The president, and his cavalier attitude, brags about the success in his political rallies, but seems to have no care for the consequence of his decisions on our personnel in the field." -Brett McGurk, former envoy to The Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS

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  14. Retweeted
    Oct 16

    Wow. We bombed our own base on purpose, because of the impulsive decision by didn’t leave time to evacuate the right way. Is this the America you grew up believing in?

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    Oct 16

    Listen to this exchange between Trump & the Defense Secretary & make a case the President has a handle on the situation in Syria: -POTUS claimed the ISIS prisoners who escaped are “the least dangerous” ones -Pressed by Schumer, in front of Trump, Esper said: “I don’t know that.”

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    Oct 16

    U.S. military spokesman in the Middle East confirms that the United States today carried out airstrikes against the former Lafarge Cement Factory headquarters in Syria as it departed. That's one day after Russian forces took over another base that the U.S. vacated near Manbij.

    On Oct. 16, after all personnel and essential tactical equipment departed, two Coalition F-15Es successfully conducted a pre-planned precision airstrike at the Lafarge Cement Factory to destroy an ammunition cache and reduce the facility’s military usefulness.
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  17. Oct 16

    Recall earlier last week, US officials were downplaying Trump’s disastrous order as only involving <50 people on the border for a limited Turkish incursion. Ten days later we are executing emergency “break glass” evacuation procedure reserved for an extreme worst-case scenario.

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  18. Oct 16

    Trump has no idea what’s happening. US personnel have been scrambling to evacuate positions surrounded by hostile Turkish-backed opposition forces. They are evacuating under duress and then bombing positions so nobody can seize them.

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    "I view the situation on the Turkish border with Syria to be, for the United States, strategically brilliant. Our soldiers are out of there. Our soldiers are totally safe"
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  19. Retweeted
    Oct 16

    What a moment! Syrian army enters the town of Kobani. This is the town where the Kurds and the U.S. first defeated ISIS together 5 years ago.

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  20. Oct 16

    The callousness with which Trump describes what is now an emergency evacuation of US military positions — some of which we’re bombing as we leave — shows a total lack of regard for consequence and dishonors those who volunteered to serve our great country.

    Trump on Turkey/Syria via : “All American soldiers are away from the site. Syria and Turkey can fight...They’ve got a lot of sand over there...“There’s a lot of sand that they can play with."
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  21. Oct 15

    Today the SDNY reminds us that problems with Turkey long predate anything having to do with Syria, charging state-owned “Halk Bank” in multi-billion dollar Iran sanctions busting scheme in which “high-ranking Turkish officials” profited.

    Turkish bank charged in Manhattan federal court for its participation in a multibillion-dollar Iranian sanctions evasion scheme
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