So We Try to Buy Favors from Terrorists?

Foreign affairs
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From the linked article:

When an Al Qaeda group known as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) seized control over Syria, with backing from the Islamist terror regimes in Turkey and Qatar, the Trump administration had a choice between opposing the move or supporting it as a way of getting US troops out of Syria.

The Trump administration dropped sanctions and a $10 million bounty on the head of former Al Qaeda leader and ISIS ally Ahmed al-Sharaa (formerly Abu Mohammed al-Jolani) who along with some of his former Al Qaeda associates was able to tour New York City. Widely reported attacks on Christians, Druze and other minority groups by Sunni Jihadists soon followed.

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#2

What a suicidal policy - I can’t believe Trump’s allowing it.
Someone needs to send him a “retweet” of what Don Jr. said 10 years ago about the bowl of skittles.
And then fire the guy in charge of that stupid plan!

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#3

Liz, please tell us what Don Jr. said about the bowl of skittles.

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#4

“If I had a bowl of skittles, and I told you just three would kill you, would you take a handful?”
Which he said in reference to Syrian refugees.

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#5

Thanks, Liz.

I cannot understand Trump’s friendliness to al-Jolani. US troops in Syria afraid of that savage and his gang - never. Surely, never!

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#6

If it is not friendliness, what is it, I wonder.

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#7

President Trump is still a great president.

I’m pretty sure you all agree with me. Look what he’s bringing off on his tour of the East!

But Israel must act in its own interests.

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#8

I know, I can’t understand that either. He must think he can control him thru those in Qatar, etc, with all the money, who fund him. I know he’s an expert at the “art of the deal”, but he shouldn’t trust any of them.

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#9

This is baffling, as was his acceptance of the jet from Qatar - the most anti-American state in the region. Sometimes he is unfathomable.

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