Susan Rice tells Stephen Colbert why Trump is 'batsh-t crazy' to abandon the Syrian Kurds

Susan Rice on Stephen Colbert's Late Show
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Susan Rice, who served as President Barack Obama's national security adviser for four years, was Stephen Colbert's guest on Monday's Late Show, and he began by asking for her thoughts on President Trump's late-Sunday decision to pull back U.S. troops from Kurdish-held northern Syria, allowing Turkey to invade and presumably crush America's Kurdish allies. She had thoughts.

"This is batsh-t crazy," Rice began. The Syrian Kurds "are the people who for the last four years have been fighting on our behalf, with our equipment, to defeat ISIS. And they have done it with enormous efficacy and they've sacrificed immensely, and we've basically just said to them, 'See ya.'" The Turks, she added, "are like the hungry wolf trying to kill the lamb," but "Trump woke up on the wrong side of the bed, it appears," and he decided to give Turkey the green light, "which is why, finally, the Republicans in Congress have gotten a pulse today."

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.