Strategic aim of balancing the turks, the kurds and the syrians and the russians in that region and find some kind of geopolitical balance that is favorable to us because, you know, our original purpose for being there was defeating isis. now if we migrated that purpose, if we have a new purpose there, we need to assess that and scale our effort accordingly. eric: generalling thank you for your thoughtful insight with us today on the fox news channel and, of course, i say thank you for your great service of to our nation. >> thank you, eric. eric: of course. well, congress considering sanction...