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Middle East: Saudis Murder & Dismember Washington Post Contributor

And holding our nuclear weapons hostage.

And over the weekend, State and Energy Department officials were quietly reviewing plans for evacuating roughly 50 tactical nuclear weapons that the United States had long stored, under American control, at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, about 250 miles from the Syrian border, according to two American officials.

Those weapons, one senior official said, were now essentially Erdogan’s hostages. To fly them out of Incirlik would be to mark the de facto end of the Turkish-American alliance. To keep them there, though, is to perpetuate a nuclear vulnerability that should have been eliminated years ago.

“I think this is a first — a country with U.S. nuclear weapons stationed in it literally firing artillery at US forces,” Jeffrey Lewis of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies wrote last week.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-followed-his-gut-on-syria-calamity-came-fast/ar-AAILbg6
 
WFFaithful said:
Are we seriously sending troops back in to take over what he just gave up?
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I assumed he meant they'd be deployed elsewhere in the Middle East, but what the hell do I know. Apparently there are a few downsides to conducting foreign policy via Twitter.
 
I would not be shocked if Trump gives Putin the greatest gift he possibly could...pulling out our nukes from Turkey.
 
Enes Kanter better watch out as well. Erdogan really wants us to send him back to Turkey.
 
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