Victory

NY Times: Donald Trump’s ‘Very Special’ Victory in Syria - It’s certainly special for Erdogan, Putin and al-Assad. By The Editorial Board

In Mr. Trump’s bizarre account, he claimed to have done Turkey and the Kurds a “great service” by creating a 20-mile-wide safe zone between them — “an interesting term, safe zone,” the president mused, as if he had just come up with a radically new concept. (The zone was in fact negotiated by Turkey and the Russians.) The president said he was lifting sanctions on Turkish products, and gushed that the commander of Kurdish forces “could not have been more thankful.”

Less than 24 hours later, that same Kurdish commander, Mazloum Abdi, was complaining on Twitter that Turkish forces were violating the “permanent” cease-fire brokered by Mr. Trump.