INTERVIEW
Former US Ambassador to NATO: We should not abandon our YPG allies
Retired Lieutenant General Douglas Lute has been at the center of national security mechanisms in the United States for two decades. His last duty was the US Permanent Representative to NATO. Nicknamed ‘War Czar’. In 2007, President Bush appointed him as Deputy National Security Advisor to coordinate the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2009, President Obama continued with Douglas Lute and appointed him as as Director of South Asia at the National Security Council.
Before his appointment to the White House, he served as the Director of Operations for the United States Central Command, responsible for US worldwide military operations from 2004 to 2006, with more than 200,000 US troops operating in 25 countries across the Middle East, East Africa and Central Asia.
In these days when the possible operation of the Turkish Army in northern Syria is on the agenda, we asked Douglas Lute, an important name in the US state administration, what we are wondering.
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