convinced we have any idea what we re doing and that s very, very dangerous. tom, a two-part question for you and you will get the last word. how can this ever be set right? is it reparable? is there any winner in this situation at all? not for the kurds who are going to fight and die now, it can t be set right. one of the things that concerns me, i think colonel jacobs is absolutely right, people overseas are now going to doubt our word. they won t make a distinction between donald trump and the americ americans. as far as people overseas are concerned, this is the united states. the president is the personification of the united states and this is something that we have done as a country. as for who is a winner, the turks got what they wanted. i shouldn t even say the t ruchlt ks. erdogan got what he wanted. the russians can sit back and let the damage unroll while the
things have actually worked and how things have worked and i think that will contribute in a major way to the kind of understanding i just talked about. nobody is going to be anywhere is going to be convinced we have any idea what we re doing and that s very, very dangerous. tom, a two-part question for you and you will get the last word. how can this ever be set right? is it reparable? is there any winner in this situation at all? not for the kurds who are going to fight and die now, it can t be set right. one of the things that concerns me, i think colonel jacobs is absolutely right, people overseas are now going to doubt our word. they won t make a distinction between donald trump and the americans. as far as people overseas are concerned, this is the united states. the president is the personification of the united states and this is something that we have done as a country. as for who is a winner, the turks got what they wanted.
as someone who fought and damn near died for his country, when you hear the president say they weren t with us on omaha beach, you and i were joking about it in my office earlier tonight. how does that really strike you? two things. the first is, it results in the kind of decision making that we see that goes against our own interest. but it almost demonstrates an almost painful ignorance of how things have actually worked and how things have worked and i think that will contribute in a major way to the kind of understanding i just talked about. nobody is going to be anywhere is going to be convinced we have any idea what we re doing and that s very, very dangerous. tom, a two-part question for you and you will get the last word. how can this ever be set right? is it reparable? is there any winner in this situation at all? not for the kurds who are going to fight and die now, it