i think he will. i think in the end i hope the president will walk this back and say, look, okay, i made this decision, we re going to do it, but i ve listened and we re going to do this in a way that s going to make sure the transition is successful. senator turner, the progressive left wants to end these wars. the progressive left i m not telling you, you are a member of it, i m no, not, but they re against forever war in afghanistan, they re against forever war in syria. isn t this something that some of the voters you represent might be happy about? it s the how though, jake. everybody should be against forever war. when you have your family members over there it really starts to hit home, but it s the how the president is doing it and running the government specifically trying to run foreign policy by the seat of your pants does not work. so the how, our allies, our women and men that are over there right now, but the how does absolutely matter. mary katherine, this is j
north korea. they re not in harm s way but they re still there. in syria, this was a low-cost situation for us to continue to route out syria, to route out isis but also to keep in check what s happening there with russia and iran. and the fact is, we were coming to a close at some point, obviously. we were going to leave syria. but to leave it when you re within a couple of months of doing something that is very important in the fight against isis and the president knows that, and we pull jerk the rug out from under two months in advance, that s hard to understand. as it relates to afghanistan, no doubt. we made a lot of mistakes there. a lot of resources went from afghanistan to iraq in the early years. i saw it happening on the ground visiting.
making, now we re into something that s incredibly sober, as it relates to syria and afghanistan coming soon. somehow or another, i hope that president sees to make decisions that are not ultimately devastating to our country. what do you say to the person sitting at home who thinks we ve been in afghanistan forever. we can t be in syria forever. i m sure president trump came in, gave the generals some time and then ultimately he was like, we re never going to get out of these wars. these are forever wars and we can t fight them indefinitely, so even if i don t like the manner in which he s doing it, i support president trump ending these foreign wars, ending these foreign entanglements. what do you say to those voters? well, we ve got 28,000 troops on the dmz between south and
people are ready to come home. you re still not talking about the way that we re doing it. i want to ask you one philosophical point. i don t mean to be rude here but i m just wondering, in the last 20 years, is there any act with u.s. intervention with military force abroad that you support? did you support going yes. after we were attacked on 9/11, i supported going to afghanistan. we re ignoring the resolution, going after the people who planned, abetted those who attacked us. it never said anything about war in yemen, mali, somali, syria. none of this was ever enacted in congress. it s unconstitutional and we should not be doing. i did going in after 9/11. i ve not supported the nation building. i would have declared victory long ago and come home. when the president declares victory over isis, he s exactly right.
that s a real problem, it s going to be a problem for him if he doesn t walk this back. i think he will. i think in the end i hope the president will walk this back and say, look, okay, i made this decision, we re going to do it, but i ve listened and we re going to do this in a way that s going to make sure the transition is successful. senator turner, the progressive left wants to end these wars. the progressive left i m not telling you, you are a member of it, i m not, but they re against forever war in afghanistan, they re against forever war in syria. isn t this something that some of the voters you represent might be happy about? it s the how though, jake. everybody should be against forever war. when you have your family members over there it really starts to hit home, but it s the how the president is doing it and running the government specifically trying to run foreign policy by the seat of your pants does not work. so the how, our allies, our women and men that are o