Politics
Trump says PKK is worse than ISIS, and that Graham would stay in Middle East for ‘the next thousand years’
October 16, 2019, 12:10 PM PDT
At a press conference with the president of Italy, President Trump said that the Kurdish group PKK is worse than ISIS, and that Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., would keep the U.S. in the Middle East for “the next thousand years with thousands of soldiers fighting other people’s wars.â€
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https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-pkk-worse-isis-191011229.htmlNo, President Trump, the PKK terrorist group is not worse than ISIS
by Tom Rogan
| October 16, 2019 02:43 PM
President Trump on Wednesday suggested that the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK terrorist group, "is probably worse at terror, more of a terrorist threat in many ways, than ISIS."
It's a ludicrous comment.
Still, under fire for his precipitous abandonment of YPG-aligned Kurdish units in Syria — groups with varying degrees of ties to the PKK — Trump is desperate to distract from his decision. Trump hopes that if he can present his abandonment of the Kurds as somehow justified, he'll be able to cool the criticism he's now enduring. But Trump's observation is not consistent with the facts.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/no-president-trump-the-pkk-terrorist-group-is-not-worse-than-isis