[Old Teufel Hunden]

"WE are the invaders there. U.S. troops in Syria are the legal and moral equivalent of Chinese or Mexican troops in California."

I said nothing about Russia's right to be in Syria. I also agree that Obama was wrong in not getting Congress to authorize this. That is all in the past. I could go on and on about the correct way that this should have been resolved. If we handled it correctly in the first place, we would have never went into Syria. However, we have to deal with the present situation, in 2018. We are there and we have National Security Interests involved. They will not be served by us pulling out like this for a number of reasons that I already outlined.

[Jim Noble]

The Arabs are, eventually, going to be ruled.

By Turks, by Russians, by Persians. Perhaps by some combination of the three.

Who they are not going to be ruled by is Americans.