DOD working hard to back away from being accused of "green-lighting" #Turkey's cross-border campaign into NE #Syria.

SecDef Esper just said "once #Turkey announced its offensive" we moved our troops away for "force protection... We're not abandoning #SDF."

That's BS, frankly. pic.twitter.com/43r9YAfTsP

— Charles Lister (@Charles_Lister) October 11, 2019