{"id":134614,"date":"2019-10-15T20:30:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T20:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/mnuchin-and-esper-defend-trumps-handling-of-turkey-syria-crisis\/"},"modified":"2019-10-15T20:30:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T20:30:31","slug":"mnuchin-and-esper-defend-trumps-handling-of-turkey-syria-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/mnuchin-and-esper-defend-trumps-handling-of-turkey-syria-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Mnuchin and Esper Defend Trumps Handling of Turkey\u2013Syria Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Administration officials are defending the presidents decisions on the Turkey\u2013Syria crisis, with Defense Secretary Mark Esper saying Turkey was prepared to attack Kurdish forces regardless of any U.S. action, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin explaining why there was a delay in imposing sanctions on Ankara.<\/p>\n<p>Esper, in an interview with Fox Newss Chris Wallace on Oct. 13, responded to questioning from Wallace, who claimed Turkey may not have gone on the offensive if President Donald Trump hadnt removed a contingent of roughly 50 U.S. troops from Syria last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first thing that we understood\u2014Ive understood from my counterparts, Secretary Pompeo from his, and certainly from President Erdogan\u2014is [Turkey was] fully committed to doing this regardless of what we did,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNewsSunday\/status\/1183373722134175744\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Esper said.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are talking about less than 50, more like two dozen [U.S. special forces]; there is no way they could stop 15,000 Turks from proceeding south.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Esper said the United States is \u201cnot going to go to war against Turkey; thats not what we signed up for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked if the roughly 50 U.S. troops could have been used as a \u201ctripwire\u201d of sorts that would have stopped Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from the assault, Esper strongly rejected the idea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIm not one to classify them as a tripwire and sacrifice them, if you will,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The United States said on Oct. 13 that its poised to withdraw some additional 1,000 troops from northern Syria after learning that Turkey planned to extend a military incursion further south and west than originally planned.<\/p>\n<p>One consideration in the decision was that Washingtons Kurdish-led ally, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), was looking to make a deal with Russia to counter the Turkish offensive.<\/p>\n<p>Turkeys offensive aims to neutralize the Kurdish YPG militia, the main component of the SDF, which is seen by Ankara as a terrorist group aligned with Kurdish insurgents in Turkey. But the SDF has also been Washingtons key regional ally in dismantling ISIS and its claimed \u201ccaliphate\u201d in Syria.<\/p>\n<h2>Developing Situation<\/h2>\n<p>Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, in an Oct. 13 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThisWeekABC\/status\/1183369898363219970\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">interview on ABCs<\/a> \u201cThis Week,\u201d defended delays in imposing U.S. sanctions on Turkey in response to its military activities. On the fifth day of Turkeys offensive against Kurdish militias, pursued despite international condemnation, Turkish-led forces appeared to have seized control of the Syrian border town of Tel Abyad, a Reuters witness said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me just say this is a complicated, developing situation. You have a NATO ally on one hand fighting against the Kurds, who were helping us with the fight against ISIS,\u201d Mnuchin said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in daily communications with Turkey, both at the Defense Department [and] the State Depa<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mnuchin-and-esper-defend-trumps-handling-of-turkey-syria-crisis_3113738.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More \u2013 Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Administration officials are defending the presidents decisions on the Turkey\u2013Syria crisis, with Def..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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