Top Senate Foreign Relations Republican blasts Trump’s Syria plans

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Sen. Bob Corker, the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said an abrupt withdrawal from Syria “boggles any sane thinking.

“I’m saddened for the broken relationships with countries that have been with us. I’m saddened for the many Kurds and others that likely will be killed and slaughtered by the Syrians or the Turks. I’m saddened for our country in being so unreliable,” the Tennessee Republican said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

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