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Now going to have to think about as he responds to this one? >> what preceded the president's words a year ago was the same thing that we saw today which was videos and images of dead children. and it's something we have seen consistently with this president. i think there is a tension between trump, trump's sort of isolationist instincts and also his desire to respond forcefully and his message that america will be strong and won't take guff from various countries around the world. what we have seen in recent weeks is trump is aware that the sort of military campaign is over in syria and hear...

Addressing the long-term issues of reconstruction and other things that will have to be done, and this of course is -- there is a military role in this. certainly in the stabilization phase. >> reporter: it may all put one of the most plain spoken four star generals in a tough spot. >> i don't think general votel will accept the idea we have to leave in six months. he's been on the ground, has looked the kurdish leaders in the eye and has basically told them we will stay. he done want to be somebody to go back or has to go back on his word. >> reporter: when u.s. troops do finally come out of ...

What happens is, if you don't go to the stabilization phase. you don't change the facts on the ground. you give control of events to others. in this case, the russians, the syrians and the iranians, it almost guarantees that three, four, five years from now, we'll have to go back there and kill other people who are trying to do us harm. >> we're still in phase four in afghanistan and in iraq. >> we are. that's the attractiveness for a lot of americans. and i totally understand it. the president's statement west don't need to say the forever. i agree. the commitment in syria now is fairly cappe...

>> our primary mission was getting rid of isis. we've almost completed task. i want to get out, bring our troops back home, i want to start rebuilding our nation. >> what do you think? >> sounds family. al qaeda is on the run and time to do nation building at hole. barack obama right before isis comes on the sxeenl roars through iraq and syria. let me give you a way that people like me think about what's going on in syria. we generally plan our operations in four phases. we deploy, we shape the battle space, we fight, that's what most people call war, and then we have a phase we call phase fou...

Stabilization phase? that didn't make sense to me. >> michael, good catch. i thought that was the most fascinating part of what was a very fascinating press conference by the secretary and general votell. the stabilization phase is what takes place after you've achieved battlefield success, after you've taken mosul, after you've taken raqqah, what do you do to make it less likely you've got to go back and do it again. it's a wonderful marker that the secretary of defense has put down. i mean on a dark day, you could call the stabilization phase nation building. i'm sure the secretary wasn't re...