You can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Michael we begin with york host we begin with your thoughts. The last of the u. S. Forces have left syria as fighting between turkey and the kurds escalate over the weekend. Your reaction to the president s decisions. We will get to your thoughts in a minute. Lets begin with mark esper, the defense secretary on the sunday shows. He was on face the nation, and here is what he had to say about the decision to withdraw these troops. [indiscernible] a deliberate [video clip] a deliberate withdraw from the entire country . From Northern Syria. 1000 troops. How long and over what time period . It will be a deliberate withdraw and we want to conduct it as safely as possible. We want to make sure we deconflict a pullback of forces and dont leave equipment behind. I am not prepared to put a timeline on it. You said you are doing this for u. S. Force protection. The armies are advancing after the u. S. Pulled back, after the u. S. Air force,
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Im going to say nothing of value. [laughter] thank you. All right, well, thank you, everyone, and welcome to im delighted that we have a packed house in particular because it is august, and while some of you are more free than you would be otherwise, which is great, some of you who would otherwise be here are not here because you are traveling. This is really a wonderful turnout for what promises to be a very timely event. Let me start by giving a couple words of introduction and the requisite thankyous. First of all, thank you to senator john hoeven for sponsoring the room, for his continued interest in our work on radical islam. There is a lot of offices that are involved with us on this work. We really appreciate being able to, in addition to our inhouse work that we do in terms of to beations and events, able to come on to the hill and be able to present the findings that we have, and also the findings of our friends. A couple words about the American Foreign policy counsel. Im the