those are the words that you used. one word that you didn't use is surprising. isn't it response something that experts in this field could have seen coming for miles? >> when i resigned i wrote a piece just to lay out the facts. and the facts are that donald trump does not want to be in syria. and so i was very troubled by the fact that, despite him saying in december get out of syria and then cutting the force by 50%, that we kept all of our objectives in syria, the max al mallist objectives the same. when you have objectives that are not backed by resources and the commander in chief has people in harm's way that he doesn't know they're there or doesn't support them being there, because when you run into a problem, as happens, the president then pulls the rug out. that's exactly what happened. this is kpj what i feared was going to happen. >> before i let you go, i wanted to get your response. the cease-fire that is set to be ending soon, turkey is sending