Wesley Clark on Monday questioned whether Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blackmailed President Trump into his decision to remove U.S. troops from Syria.
“There doesn’t seem to be any strategic rationale for the decision. And if there’s no strategic rationale for the decision then you have to ask, why was the decision made?” the retired U.S. Army general and former NATO commander said on CNN’s “New Day.”
“People around the world are asking this and some of our friends and our allies in the Middle East are asking, did Erdogan blackmail the president? Was there a payoff is or something? Why would a guy make a decision like this? Because all the recommendations were against it,” he added.
Ex-NATO Supreme Allied Commander @GeneralClark: "I'm very concerned" about the US withdrawal from Syria because "there doesn't seem to be any strategic rationale for the decision."
"Did Erdogan blackmail the president? Was there a payoff is or something?" https://t.co/UQv2VD93oo pic.twitter.com/QAwWNjkOY3
— New Day (@NewDay) December 24, 2018
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Ex-NATO commander asks if Trump pulled troops out of Syria due to blackmail https://t.co/LKOK8DLeeG pic.twitter.com/w5uIM61cMv
— The Hill (@thehill) December 24, 2018
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