Professor BEGS Trump: Get Out Of Syria To Avoid WWIII!

In this Majority Report clip, an ominous warning.

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"As President Donald Trump tweets Syria provocations, it’s almost a foregone conclusion the U.S. will escalate its military response to the ongoing civil war — but one expert told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” it doesn’t have to be that way.

Jeffrey Sachs, professor of sustainable development and health policy at Columbia University, has been calling for an end to the U.S. military presence in Syria for years, and he stunned other panelists with his passionate call to leave the war-torn nation.

“I think we have to step back and not put it in partisan terms,” Sachs said. “This is a U.S. mistake that started seven years ago. I remember the day on your show when President Obama said Assad must go, and I looked at you and Joe and I said, ‘Huh, how is he going to do that? Where is the policy for that?'”

He said the plan to overthrow Syrian president Bashar Hafez al-Assad using covert methods was a “disaster” that opened the door to Islamic State militants and Russia, and Sachs said the U.S. had compounded its original mistake by remaining involved.

“What we should do now is get out and not continue to throw missiles, not have a confrontation with Russia,” Sachs said. “Seven years have been a disaster under Obama, continuing under Trump. This is what I would call the permanent state.”

Sachs said the CIA and Pentagon have waged a proxy war in Syria that has killed 500,000 people and displaced 10 million more — and he said the disaster was completely predictable."*

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