A bad idea that directly contradicts the statement from sunday that was released by the white house 1st announcing this attack was imminent when the white house said that President Trump and turkeys leader erda once spoke on the telephone they acknowledged that turkey would soon be moving forward with its long planned operation into syria so theres a problem with those 2 statements theyre directly opposing one another and youre right that sunday statement seemed to greenlight this operation by turkey and what this also signals is that the United States seemed to be fully aware of the scale and the scope 2 of the operation we havent had a statement as late as tuesday from the pentagon where they had continued to press articulating that stablish in a safe zone was the desired course of action in order to maintain stability and yet there was also an acknowledgement that turkey had rebuffed that suggestion so there is a bit of a problem with these 2 statements in fact there is a lot of cri