essentially fight isis and people like that. it was maintaining stability and support for the kurds. it was maintaining a barrier between the kurds and the turks. it was basically cuaon and givi u.s. a way to strike isis if it needed to at very low cost. he upended the entire situation. the outcome is now that you have had a quarter of a million people displaced. you've had kurds fleeing. you've had unquestionably war crimes committed. the united states has had to air lift its troops out and destroy its own weapons cashes so that they don't fall into enemy lines. meanwhile, turkey and russia have carved that part of syria for themselves. the united states is now completely absent. so you look at that and think that's a foreign policy victory? i'd hate to see what a failure looks like. that's a complicated issue.