前总统反伊斯兰国联盟特使继续对唐纳德·特朗普总统的外交政策进行恶毒的批评，谴责总司令最近对叙利亚库尔德社区的评论明显缺乏地理和历史知识。
布雷特·麦古克——特朗普在2018年表示将从叙利亚撤出所有美国军队后辞去了美国驻反伊斯兰国联盟特使的职务——对总统的建议土耳其入侵叙利亚东北部后，叙利亚库尔德人应该“开始前往石油地区”。
停火结束了该地区最严重的战斗。这场战斗是由土耳其本月早些时候发动的，旨在将库尔德人领导的叙利亚民主力量从两国边境18英里深的地带清除出去。
特朗普突然从叙利亚东北部撤军为此次行动提供了便利。在那里，美国军队被部署来支持他们的自卫队盟友打击伊拉克和黎凡特伊斯兰国。
针对特朗普的“石油区”评论，麦古克在推特上写道“美利坚合众国总统似乎呼吁库尔德人大规模迁移到沙漠，在那里他们可以在一个小油田上重新定居。”
美国军队已经放弃了他们在叙利亚北部的阵地，大部分军队越过边境撤退到伊拉克——尽管巴格达已经表示他们没有权限留在这个国家。
据报道，特朗普正计划在叙利亚保留一支小规模的美国部队，部署这支部队是为了保护该国东部有价值的油田。这可能包括坦克和其他装甲车，新闻周刊周四报道。
麦古克说，总统的建议暴露了“对历史、地理、法律、美国价值观、人类尊严和荣誉的惊人无知”
特朗普继续捍卫他的叙利亚政策，尽管遭到了政治派别双方的严厉批评。周三，特朗普声称停火结束了战斗，并声称美国“做得很好”
但现实是战略灾难对于被美国抛弃的美国及其库尔德人领导的盟友来说，他们被迫转向叙利亚政权，向巴沙尔·阿萨德总统投降，以换取保护。俄罗斯——与叙利亚政权结盟——已经成为该国的主要角色。
另一方面，土耳其已经能够沿着边境建立起它所希望的“安全区”，并确保了库尔德人的灭亡，总统雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安认为库尔德人是对国家生存的威胁。
与此同时，混乱使得“数十名”伊斯兰国激进分子逃脱了库尔德人的拘留。美国叙利亚问题特别代表詹姆斯·富兰克林·杰弗里本周承认政府不知道到底有多少战士被释放，也不知道他们将如何被追踪或重新抓获。
法宝周三吹嘘道停火是“我们、美国和其他任何人创造的结果”事实上，是俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京和埃尔多安同意了这一解决方案，并于周二在黑海度假胜地索契会面，敲定战后叙利亚的形状。
2019年10月20日，叙利亚库尔德人看着一辆美国军车驶离叙利亚北部城镇塔尔塔姆的一个基地。
TRUMP'S TREATMENT OF KURDS SHOWS IGNORANCE OF 'AMERICAN VALUES, HUMAN DECENCY, AND HONOR,' SAYS FORMER ANTI-ISIS ENVOY
The former presidential envoy to the anti-Islamic State coalition has continued his virulent criticism of President Donald Trump's foreign policy, condemning the commander in chief's apparent geographic and historical illiteracy regarding his latest comments about Kurdish communities in Syria.
Brett McGurk—who resigned as the U.S. envoy to the anti-ISIS coalition after Trump said in 2018 that he would withdraw all American troops from Syria—reacted angrily to the president's suggestion that Syrian Kurds should "start heading to the Oil Region" following the Turkish invasion of the country's northeast.
A ceasefire has ended the worst of the fighting in the area, which was sparked earlier this month by a Turkish military operation to clear Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces from an 18-mile deep zone along the border between the two countries.
The operation was facilitated by Trump's abrupt withdrawal of American troops from northeastern Syria, where they had been deployed to support their SDF allies in the campaign against ISIS.
Reacting to Trump's "Oil Region" comment, McGurk wrote on Twitter, "The President of the United States of America appears to be calling for a mass migration of Kurds to the desert where they can resettle atop a tiny oil field."
U.S. forces have abandoned their positions in northern Syria, with the majority retreating across the border into Iraq—though Baghdad has said they do not have permission to remain in the country.
Trump is reportedly planning to retain a small force of Americans in Syria, deployed to protect valuable oil fields in the east of the country. This could include tanks and other armored vehicles, Newsweek reported Thursday.
McGurk said the president's suggestion betrayed a "shocking ignorance of history, geography, law, American values, human decency, and honor."
Trump is continuing to defend his Syria policy despite withering criticism from both sides of the political spectrum. On Wednesday, Trump claimed credit for the ceasefire to end the fighting and claimed the U.S. had "done a great job."
But the reality is a strategic disaster for the U.S. and its Kurdish-led allies, who—abandoned by the U.S.—were forced to turn to the Syrian regime and submit to President Bashar al-Assad in exchange for protection. Russia—allied with the Syrian regime—has emerged as the main player in the country.
And on the other side, Turkey has been able to establish its desired "safe zone" along the border and ensured the demise of the Kurdish statelet which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan considered an existential threat to the country.
Meanwhile, the chaos has allowed "dozens" of Islamic State militants to escape Kurdish detention. The U.S. Special Representative for Syria James Franklin Jeffrey admitted this week that the government does not know exactly how many fighters have been freed, and has no idea as to how they will be tracked or recaptured.
Trump boasted Wednesday that the ceasefire was "an outcome created by us, the United States, and nobody else." In fact, it was Russian President Vladimir Putin and Erdogan who agreed the settlement, meeting in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Tuesday to hammer out the shape of post-war Syria.
Syrian Kurds watch as a U.S. military vehicle drives away from a base in the northern Syriain town of Tal Tamr, on October 20, 2019.
