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trish: joining me, retired lieutenant colonel robert mcinnes. turkey doing something they shouldn't can doing already? >> if you understand what president erdogan is trying to accomplish, i think the listener will appreciate. it's not that different from what we have with our own southern border. he has had what he considers a terrorist organization to the south of his border working with the terrorist organization north of the border. he has 3.5 refugees from that region. he wants them to go home. it's draining his economy. there are a host of reasons for erdogan to do this, and damascus -- trish: we are look at the fire. we have seen women running with their kid. does it really need that kind of brutality? he control the air space. if they had a phone call couldn't he say, hey, erdogan, no way. what he just said right there. if turkey pulled something they shouldn't pull, we are going to do something about it. they did do something. turkey went in and there are people that are victims of erdogan right now. people that by the way, sir, fought w

retired lieutenant colonel bob mcinnes. good to have you back on the show.another ceasefire. that's good that people aren't firing at each other. how do you view this? >> at this point people are not firing at each other all that much. any tragic war situation, nobody is going to celebrate. putin has come in and he's been in that country, syria, for years. he's doing everything he can to undermine the alliance of nato which he considers his existential enemy, and that's understandable. aligning with erdogan who he sold air defense systems this past summer. he will do a lot more to assist that relationship. it's good for russia. but the question is, is it good for america? it allows us to get untangled from another war that does not have a clear end in sight. there are 55 wars in this world today at various levels. we are involved in a number of them. i can't help but reflect object what president trump said last week standing there on the tarmac of dover air force base, families welcoming their loved one home in a casket. how much blood do we want to spill i