weakened and exposed. turkey assured the trump administration they could defeat the terror group but any operation in northern syria would likely start a new confrontation between the sworn enemies, turks and syrian kurds, chaos isis would likely exploit. republican senator bob corker had strong words about trump's decision on cnn's state of the union. >> we're just a few months away from finishing something that we started, where we would annihilate large number of isis members and we stopped. i'm just saddened for our country. i'm saddened for the broken relationships, with countries that have been with us. i'm saddened for the many kurds and others that likely will be killed and slaughtered by either the syrians or the turks. >> the united states arab allies in the region also condemned the decision, fearing iran, too, would take advantage, even senior israeli political and military officials, usually