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  • STEVE, THANKS TO YOU AND YOUR

  • CREW, MOLLY.

  • >> FOR MORE ON THIS WE TURN TO

  • FOX NEWS STRATEGIC ANALYST AND

  • CHAIRMAN, RETIRED FOUR STAR

  • GENERAL JACK KEANE.

  • YOU DID NOT WANT TO SEE THIS

  • OCCUR, NOW THAT WE ARE WATCHING

  • WHAT'S HAPPENING THERE ON THE

  • GROUND, YOUR THOUGHTS AND WE

  • ALSO HAVE A MAP THAT MIGHT HELP

  • YOU EXPLAIN YOUR THOUGHTS AT

  • THIS POINT IN TIME.

  • >> YEAH, CERTAINLY I WAS VERY

  • DISAPPOINTED IN WHAT TOOK PLACE

  • HERE AND WE HAVE ENUMERATED THAT

  • FOR THE LAST WEEK OR SO, WHERE

  • ARE WE NOW, YOU CAN SEE ON THE

  • MAP THERE, THAT'S THE SO-CALLED

  • SAFE ZONE, BUFFER ZONE, RIGHT UP

  • BY THE TURKISH SYRIAN BORDER AND

  • THE TWO TOWNS THAT YOU HAVE

  • LISTED THERE, ARE THE TWO TOWNS

  • THAT THE KURDS HAVE SUCCESSFULLY

  • WITHDRAWN OUT OF WITHOUT ANY

  • INTERFERENCE FROM THE TURKS,

  • WHAT THE SYRIAN KURDS DO NOT

  • WANT TO DO THROUGH THE ENTIRE

  • SWATH OF YELLOW THERE, PULL

  • EVERYBODY OUT OF THERE BECAUSE

  • THAT'S THEIR HOMES, THAT'S WHERE

  • THEY WORK, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS

  • OF PEOPLE THERE AND MOST

  • POLICYMAKERS WOULD DEFINE THAT

  • AS ETHNIC CLEANSING AND I THINK

  • THE UNITED STATES AND OTHERS

  • WILL PUSH BACK ON THE TURKS, BUT

  • THE PRESIDENT DESERVES SOME

  • CREDIT HERE, THE SANCTIONS ON

  • ERDOGAN HAVE IMPACT, WE GOT A

  • CEASE FIRE, SEEMS TO BE DONE

  • FAIRLY WELL GIVEN CEASE FIRES IN

  • SYRIAN ARE NOTORIOUSLY BAD.

  • WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO US, WE

  • WILL GO BACK TO NEGOTIATING THAT

  • YELLOW AREA ON THE MAP AS THE

  • BUFFER ZONE AND WHAT ACTUALLY

  • MOVES SOUTH AND WHAT STAYS IN

  • PLACE AND LET'S NOT USE GUNS TO

  • DO THAT.

  • I'M HOPING THAT'S WHERE WE ARE,

  • THE SECOND THING IS THE UNITED

  • STATES HAS ALREADY MADE A

  • DECISION TO KEEP SOME TROOPS IN

  • SYRIA IN THE SOUTH AT A BASE AND

  • I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT

  • POLICYMAKERS ARE RECONSIDERING

  • ARE THERE OTHER PLACES THAT WE

  • MAY, INDEED, HAVE TO KEEP SOME

  • TROOPS IN SYRIA OVER BY THE IRAQ

  • BORDER OR IN SOUTHERN SYRIA AS

  • WELL FOR TWO REASONS, ONE TO

  • KEEP THE FOOT ON THE THROAT OF

  • THE KURDS, ON ISIS, 15,000 IN

  • THE AREA AND 2 TO MAKE CERTAIN

  • THAT THE IRANIANS DON'T CEASE

  • OIL FIELDS.

  • TAKE A LOOK AT THE MAP, THE

  • PURPLE AREA IS WHERE THE UNITED

  • STATES COALITION FORCES ARE

  • CONTROLLING EASTERN SYRIA, UP

  • UNTIL ERDOGAN'S OPERATION

  • INCLUDED THE YELLOW AREA IN THE

  • TOP. OIL FIELDS ARE SOMEWHAT

  • DOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MAP,

  • 70% ARE OUR UNDER CONTROL, THE

  • RED ON THE MAP IS THE IRANIANS,

  • THEY'RE ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE

  • VALLEY AND IF WE PULL OUT OF

  • THERE AND GIVE UP AIR SPACE

  • CONTROL, THEY WILL CEASE THE OIL

  • FIELDS.

  • >> YOU COVERED ENORMOUS AMOUNT

  • OF GROUND THERE THAT CONCERNS

  • ETHNIC CLEANSING, THE BUFFER

  • ZONE WHERE MANY KURDISH PEOPLE

  • HAVE LIVED FOR GENERATIONS, BUT

  • SORT OF EXPRESSED THAT PERHAPS,

  • YOU KNOW, THERE ARE THINGS THAT

  • ARE NOT THE WORST EVER THAT YOU

  • HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF OPTIMISM,

  • THIS IS SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM

  • ON SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES WHO

  • ALSO EXPRESSED THAT MAYBE

  • SOMETHING GOOD MIGHT COME OUT OF

  • THIS, TAKE A LISTEN.

  • >> I'M INCREASINGLY OPTIMISTIC

  • THAT WE CAN HAVE HISTORIC

  • SOLUTIONS IN SYRIA THAT HAVE

  • ALLUDED US FOR YEARS IF WE PLAY

  • OUR CARDS RIGHT.

  • I BLAME ERDOGAN FOR THE INVASION

  • AND NOT TRUMP.

  • >> WE ARE WHERE WE ARE, DO YOU

  • SHARE THE SENSE OF OPTIMISM?

  • >> I BELIEVE THE CEASE FIRE HAS

  • GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY,

  • POLICYMAKERS TO TAKE A DEEP

  • BREATH HERE AND CONSIDER

  • IMPLICATIONS AND RESET THE TABLE

  • AND THAT'S WHAT SENATOR GRAHAM

  • IS SAYING, I TALKED TO HIM 2 TO

  • 4 TIMES A DAY TO BE FRANK ABOUT

  • IT.

  • WHAT I'M HOPING THAT WE DO LEAVE

  • SOME PRESENCE OF FORCES IN SYRIA

  • WORKING WITH THE SYRIAN KURDS

  • AND THE ARABS AND MAKING SURE

  • THAT WE ARE STAYING ON TOP OF

  • ISIS AND PROTECTING THE OIL

  • FIELDS AND THE ADMINISTRATION IS

  • LOOKING AT, WELL, THOSE OIL

  • FIELDS, LET'S TRY TO GET THE

  • REVENUE AND RETURN THEM TO THE

  • PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN INVOLVED

  • IN THE FIGHT AND PROTECTING

  • THEM.

  • >> INCREDIBLE BY DIFFICULT

  • SITUATION, GENERAL KEANE,

  • SOMETHING ELSE TO WATCH MEETING

STEVE, THANKS TO YOU AND YOUR

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