pull 2,000 troops out of an area like this. you have to do it intelligently. there is logistics involved and you have to have a plan but this president doesn't operate on that universe, he operates on the whims of his emotions and the message that sends, even if it is right, the way he's going about it is disastrous for everybody involved. have a clear coherent thought and then organize the policy in a structured way. this is ultimately why secretary mattis left. it wasn't just the decisions, it was the way the president made them. like a 4-year-old and we cannot govern the world and have relationships with allies when he flits all over the place with no intelligent rational, whether it is the border wall, whatever it is, it is what he likes to feel like in the morning. at some point he'll have to take a briefing and he'll have to read a book and fully understand