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all of us in america have generally paid for our gas and oil all along, and i m sure that we will continue to do so in the future. we are not in iraq to seize anybody s oil. mattis is working on options to accelerate the fight against isis for president trump to review at the end of the month. the key goals, get mosul and raqqa syria out of isis hands. but mattis, an iraq veteran himself, not exactly committing on more troops or weapons to the fight. we owe some degree of confidentiality on exactly how we are going to do that and the sequencing of that fight. so that we don t expose to the enemy what it is that we have in mind in terms of the timing of the operations. the pentagon is looking at several ideas, including arming kurdish rebels, which turkey opposes, and even putting u.s. conventional troops on the ground inside syria. ....