done is made america less secure than 14 day s when he invaded erdogan to invade northern syria. we ve now allowed isis fighters to go free as a result of turkey s attack on the kurds. we have let down a decades-old ally in the kurds now being slaughtered. russia now moved into the territory that u.s. forces have held, the kurds held with our advisers helping them hold ta territory. that strip of land now is held by the russians who have now managed to open a land bridge which they ve always wanted to do also now benefits iranians who always want add land bridge to help them lead and create a pathway directly to our only true friend in the middle east which is israel. now we have put israel under pressure and on top of that driven the kurds our allies to start working with bashar al assad, the murderous dictator. we re not any better off are than we 14 days ago. we are worse off and this policy that the president has done nothing but endangered americans
us not to do this. don t pull out. ask other allies, please, don t pull out. president trump handed turkey, syria iran with exactly what they wanted. biggest winner in this is isis. we lost kurdish allies in the reachened aour standing with neighbor allies lost our intelligence assets. no one will tell us what s going on there who will stick out their neck when they know we might abandon them like we did the kurds. and we can t fly drones there any more because the russians have capability of knocking down our drones. questions on future relationship with allies, questions on relationships with intelligence. i don t know if you saw one of the president s tweets was basically suggesting the kurds relocate to the oil. wrap he tweeted. i really enjoyed my conversation with general mazloum, appreciates what we ve done. head of the kurds. i appreciate what the kurds have done.
of the defeat isis came pain, to maintain that defeat and destruction. i m still confused. the local forces making sure that that happen were the sdf and those are the forces who by withdrawing you have allowed to be victims and targets of the turkish offensive which is precisely designed to get them out of the way of the area that you ve been stabilizing. the sdf are still in control of the prisons under their control and the turks have told us they ve taken control of the prisons in which they now have responsibility and our mission in that area was to train, advise and assist. we weren t guarding prisons in that part of the word. it is not just about prisons it is about fighting and the kurds were your real on the ground fighting force. tragically about eight american lives were lost during the fight for isis. but more than 11,000 kurdish lives were lost. that is right. and we were they re enablers and air force so we had mutual interest and it was to destroy the physical ca
syria which happens to have some oil fields. sos not a considered policy. these are spasms. and to stay in syria just to protect an oil field, that might be one of the purposes. but to say that out loud raises very serious questions. bloomberg is writing about it this well. the president has mentioned multiple times the idea that troops would stay there to protect oil fields. where is that coming from? first of all, it s illegal. i know this issue pretty well. we cannot exploit the oil. the oil has to be smuggled because we can t legally sell it. so you want to protect the fields to make sure that isis doesn t get at it. but as we collapse our entire position in northeast syria and lose support of the population, to keep a couple hundred troops in a corner of syria to do what? for what purpose? for what mission? how will they be sustained? how will they be supplied? these are serious questions. and most administrations you would have a national security process. these are questions
trade, that there would be a liberalization as there. it s been the opposite whether it s hong kong on western china. neil: you re right. they keep lying. and i believe this administration has called it bluntly exactly that. neil: this president said of isis, which its defeated, they re on the run. they re gun. what do you think? the intelligence community sees isis more broadly than how the president defined it for that. the president is quite right, the isis geographic caliphate was destroyed. it was destroyed thanks to the american troops, they re valiant in what they did but especially our allies and the kurdish forces lost over 10,000 killed in action along. 23,000 wounded. neil: isis doesn t look good to me. the idea of isis not gone. the sleeper cells are there. this is i m from the american