Article snippet: An effort to counter MORE’s Syria strategy is running into partisan land mines on Capitol Hill. The emerging battle lines increase the chance that nothing will be able to pass Congress, despite the widespread bipartisan backlash sparked by the president’s decision to pull back troops from northern Syria ahead of Turkey’s invasion. Lawmakers say they are still mulling potential financial penalties against Ankara or a resolution to formally oppose Trump’s decision, but so far they’ve failed to coalesce behind a policy. Senate Majority Leader MORE (Ky.) and other top Republicans introduced a resolution on Tuesday that urged Trump to reverse course on the troop pullback, condemned Turkey’s military invasion and suggested that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s White House invitation be revoked. McConnell, announcing his resolution, knocked Democrats’ 2020 field, arguing they should have to go on the record on the broader U.S. strategy in the Middle East and Afghanistan. “Almost all of our Democratic colleagues currently running for president refused to sign on to the McConnell amendment that earned 70 votes,” McConnell said, referring to an amendment approved by the Senate earlier this year warning Trump against pulling troops from Syria and Afghanistan. He added that “we can’t afford to dance around the critical question of a U.S. presence in Syria and the Middle East for the sake of Democrats’ presidential primary. The Senate needs to speak up.” The res... Link to the full article to read more