2019-20 秋 Week 6 Assignment 5.mp4 We 1______________________________ surprise development in Syria where today U.S. troops began pulling back from positions in the north. Now, here's why this matters: America's Kurdish allies could soon be overrun by Turkish forces, and there is real concern the 10,000 ISIS fighters could escape. The Democratic House speaker and the Republican Senate majority leader rarely agree on anything, but tonight, they are both speaking out against the president’s plan. David Martin reports tonight from the Pentagon. U.S. troops abandoned observation posts along Syria's border with Turkey ahead of a threatened incursion by the Turkish army, 2______________________________ could happen within the next 24 to 48 hours. President Trump said it's only 3______________________________. -I don't want those 50 people hurt or killed or anything. I don't want anything bad to happen to our people. But the president who, later in the day, met with these top military commanders, 4______________________________. -At some point, we have to bring our people back home. And that's what we're doing. The surprise move 5______________________________ was immediately denounced by more than half a dozen Republican senators. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned a precipitous withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria would only benefit Russia, Iran and the Assad regime, and it would increase the risk that ISIS and other terrorist groups regroup. Senator Lindsey Graham 6______________________________, which had been leading the fight against ISIS. -The Kurds stepped up when nobody else would to fight ISIS. If we abandon them, good luck getting anybody to help America in the future with radical Islam. 7______________________________ a Sunday phone call between the president and Turkey's President Erdogan, who has been threatening for weeks 8______________________________ what he considers Kurdish terrorists threatening his country. 9______________________________ by conducting joint security patrols along the border. Administration officials insist President Trump did not 10______________________________. In one of his tweets, the president threatened to "totally destroy and obliterate the economy of Turkey if it does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits." Norah? Alright, David, thank you.