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That has no coherent foreign policy. a national apparatus influx and we dont have a confirmed secretary of state right now. this is the time they take action and take advantage of this instability. >> as general hert ling pointed out too this is something the obama administration struggled with as well. when we talk about assad and russia, he eerrol, is there anyg chance what we have seen the last 24 hours is a response from russia to the repeat sanctions that the u.s. has taken against them? >>...

Insulting first of all. secondly, the comments about the economy and where the economy is growing, deployed service members dont want to hear about that. they want to hear hey, thanks. griff: now, having been with those troops overseas and iraq, rather thanksgiving. the fact that general hert ling we should point out was appointed by president obama 2008 or 2009 to his sports fitness council. so maybe he was offended that president trump didnt give president obama kudos for economic things, obam...

>> reporter: yeah. i would absolutely agree with pretty much anything that general hert ling said there. i think this comes down to one main problem. you have companies in this region of the world who are willing to be involved in syria in the long term. those countries are turkey, iran, and russia. the u.s., over the course of the past year, was never really willing to fully get involved in the situation in syria and now you have president trump saying that america wants to pull out. that, of c...