kurds, or to save human life or to honor our promises as a nation. instead, we will leave those u.s. troops there to secure the region's oil. as trump tweeted out today -- "what are we getting out of the deal? i simply say, the oil." here with me, former u.s. army officer and veteran of the iraq war, john saltz, chairman and co-founder of vote vets, an advocacy organization for veterans, an odd vocation organization that has had a lot more to do because of the amount of time that america has spent in the middle east. donald trump has some audience when he says "we need to get out of there," but this is not what a lot of people in the military are saying is the way to do it. >> you know, if donald trump came up with a plan to leave syria, i think that there would be a lot of cross-partisan support for it. and i think overall what we've seen in the last two weeks was foreign policy by tweet. and you could look at the data point from people that work at central command in tampa to people that are on the ground in