are in syria for isis. that is the legal basis for which we are in syria. that is the basis on which we have built this huge global coalition to share the burdens. it is illegal to be in syria for the purpose of protecting oil fields or exploiting those oil fields to somehow make use of those resources for us. that just can t happen. you cannot take oil unless you own it and put it legally on to international markets. that s not how the oil markets, the system works. so, this is just very strange. look, what happened here is president trump on a call with president erdogan on october 6th was not prepared for that phone call. he basically gave away the store. he gave a green light to erdogan to come into syria with extremist backed forces that turkey supports. and you had a total unraveling of what was a very stable situation in northeast syria. the mission that was built really to protect us against isis. and out of that unraveling, the president was convinced to keep some forces there