syria. the military and defenders of the president say we were never there. this has nothing to do with our decision to leave, the united states. what s your take? we were the sinu that held all those loose parts together in terms of o you are relationship with the kurds. you can be very agnostic and say, look, the turks are our ally through nato, we ve got a longstanding relationship with them that dates back to the early 50s, albeit a troubled relationship in many cases. the kurds, that was a marriage of convenience. what we didn t do was establish what the pre-nup was going to look like before that marriage and we ended it and didn t give them any opportunity to better position themselves and get ready for this. so the fact that we ve had that type of displacement, the main thing in my mind is turkey now is taking advantage of this vacuum and created a buffer zone. independent n i m not a lawyer but you are don t create a buffer zone