border which would allow turkey to move in. you're very concerned about the message that this sends now and in the future to u.s. allies. why? >> so it's two things. think of every time we've been in battle and left our allies behind and they've gotten slaughtered. even the kurds after 1991. a whole northern no-fly zone set up after they were basically slaughtered by saddam hussein because we encouraged them to rise up and didn't step in. look at the translators in afghanistan that we promised visas to if they worked with us that are now still hiding from the taliban because we can't get them here. so this would be another mix in that. the other thing is this. people like rand paul constantly say we don't want 100,000 troops in syria. i don't either. this is exactly the model that we should be implementing for future kind of fights like this. a few hundred troops. using local forces to fight the battle. so we don't have to. and then to look at that, a special forces operation mainly with 1,000 troops and say it's an endless war is disingenuous.