but secondly, it's not just about tkurds, although they're very important. the best ally we've had in the middle east, they're doing the fighting on the ground. t not just about the shame, the disgrace of betraying the kurds. a global issue for the united states because after the president attacked nato and stirred doubt about whether we'd support our nato allies, now he's threatening to walk away when the kurds said he wasn't going to do it. alliances are critical. the president himself said we can't be the world's policeman. we don't want to be. you better have some other cops on the beat and we need allies and we are alienating them as fast as president trump can. >> it's one of the things in afghanistan that our troops for years had been trying to do is get people afghans off the fence and try to convince them that you know, that we have their back for the long-term. this certainly sends as you