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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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That’s all in the last week. Ukraine is one piece of a dysfunctional foreign policy system under Trump. It’s disconnected from declared American interests. Diplomats can’t speak for our country even on established policies. Adversaries and competitors sense and seize advantage.
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5. Back in the Middle East, as we hand military facilities to Russia (the other great power competitor) and Iran restarts its nuclear program, Saudi Arabia, recently attacked by Iran, reads the tea leaves and conducts joint naval exercises with China.https://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUKKBN1XU0AW#click=https://t.co/RUTtK3eeSa …
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4. South Korea, confronted with the new reality of an unpredictable and unreliable United States under Trump, signs an unprecedented defense pact with China, our primary great power competitor as defined in Trump’s own national security strategy.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/18/china-signs-defence-agreement-south-korea-us-angers-seoul-demand/ …
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3. Canceled military exercises in South Korea, essential for our own readiness and aimed apparently to appease Kim Jong-Un, were only met with further defiance from North Korea. (That’s generally how appeasement works.)https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1196593704095625217 …
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2. Trump’s own national security strategy was geared towards “great power competition,” yet we’re shaking down and alienating our closest Asia-Pacific allies, our main comparative advantage against China.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/us-breaks-off-talks-with-south-korea-over-costs-of-military-alliance/2019/11/19/949773d8-0a9b-11ea-8054-289aef6e38a3_story.html …
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1. State/DOD IGs confirm what we already know: that Trump’s green light to Erdogan and abrupt withdrawal from Syria has been a total disaster that’s only getting worse, benefitting ISIS, Iran, and Russia.https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/19/politics/pentagon-report-syria-turkey-ceasefire/index.html …
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The predictable result is a shambolic foreign policy and weakening of our country. In the last week alone, five examples, across two theaters:
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Here is the entire essay, which is worth reading. The effectiveness trap, banishment of expertise, impugning the reputations of those who tell the truth, and the resultant chilling effect amongst serving officials, all read like modern-day lessons.https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1968/04/how-could-vietnam-happen-an-autopsy/306462/ …
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George Packer, in his brilliant “Our Man” about Richard Holbrook, cites a ‘68
@TheAtlantic essay by a former assistant who worked for years on Vietnam and described why officials so often refuse to speak up or throw red flags when they know they should. Seems very relevant today:pic.twitter.com/7i8YsTNrm0
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Brett McGurk Retweeted
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Massive attacks underway against the kurds in northern syria. No ceasefire. Total nonsenses there is. US military officials tell me they are ashamed, “sickened.” It’s cold now outside. What about the families, and kids, out of their homes?
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Kobani is a predominantly Kurdish area and site of the turning point against ISIS in 2015. This military facility was later critical to the defeat of ISIS’s so-called caliphate. Unfortunately for the Kurds, there’s no oil in the area.https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/ce49a91c-5f4f-434a-a9c5-6cd3432a842f …
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Today in Syria: Russia takes control of main U.S. military facility abandoned earlier this week by American forces on Trump’s orders. This area is south of Kobani and went to Russia under the Putin-Erdogan deal. Russia now also owns the airstrip we built.pic.twitter.com/uO5AHdKMi3
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Pompeo says the
@coalition to defeat ISIS that formed in 2014 is “one of the most successful multilateral undertakings of the century.” Agree!https://twitter.com/StateDept/status/1195046612994854915?s=20 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
I worked with Amb Taylor. With his remarkable record of service, personal courage, and integrity, he was like an EF Hutton of diplomacy: when he spoke, best to listen carefully.https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1194655603492302848?s=21 …
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Senior US officials keep trying to clean this up, claiming US troops are really staying in Syria due to ISIS, but the troops are there on Trunp’s orders, and he keeps saying this (“only for the oil”) — which is totally illegal.https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1194671109679046658?s=21 …
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At bottom: No NATO ally defies American values and interests like Turkey under Erdogan. Turkey is a great country, and its democracy will outlast its current leader. Until then, it’s best to be honest about what’s happening. None of it’s normal, and appeasement makes it worse.
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15. Why do you continue to insist on expanding the influence of extremist groups known to harbor al Qaeda and responsible for war crimes? Are any of these groups now in NE Syria using American weapons? Do they operate under US-controlled skies?
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14. Why did your state-backed media hail an “operation” to brutally murder a Kurdish woman until realizing it was (indeed) a probable war crime and then deleted any trace of the story? Has anyone been held accountable?https://twitter.com/brett_mcgurk/status/1183112864908894208?s=21 …
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13. Why did you start making specific military threats against NE Syria — which culminated during your October 6 call with Trump — on the very day you took delivery of the S400 missile system from Russia? Was that a big coincidence?https://twitter.com/brett_mcgurk/status/1149726976678039552?s=21 …
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