Brett McGurk, then the U.S. envoy for the global coalition against the Islamic State, speaks during a news conference in Iraq in 2017. Brett McGurk is showing no such deference. — Brett McGurk (@brett_mcgurk) October 7, 2019“Donald Trump is not a Commander-in-Chief,” said McGurk, who resigned along with Mattis over Trump’s initial (but later aborted) plan for a full Syria withdrawal. Where’s Pompeo?https://t.co/t2EMqoTqHk — Brett McGurk (@brett_mcgurk) October 7, 2019McGurk noted that the U.S. European Command tweeted just this weekend about the “security mechanism” it put in place for the SDF. https://t.co/QHYzI7dgEi — Brett McGurk (@brett_mcgurk) October 7, 2019Trump supporters will probably dismiss this as sour grapes by a former Trump adviser whose advice Trump didn’t heed.

Source: Washington Post October 07, 2019 12:33 UTC