a diplomat told u.s., you have given up on us. you have left our civilians to be slaughtered. do you support the u.s. president's decision? >> jake, i wish it could be different, i can tell you that, but we don't like many of the president's choices. i hate to oversimplify these conflicted choices, but i think the larger question is were we prepared to stay and fight the turks given the turks seemed committed to coming across the border and establish this militarization zone with or without us staying there. the president, i think, at that point has not so much a binary choice but a decision to make of which plan do we stand with? the turks are not the kind of ally the kurds are, but they are a nato country, as you pointed out, and it's never quite as simple as just a binary choice. >> i'm not sure turkey would have attacked had the u.s.