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This morning you cautioned Erdogan. Since then it appears as though there have been casualties on the Kurdish side. Are you concerned about escalation and are you concerned that Erdogan will try to wipe out the Kurds?
I will wipe out his economy if that happens. I've already done it once with Pastor Brunson. I'm sure that he... I hope that he will act rationally. The worst mistake that the United States has ever made in my opinion was going into the Middle East. It's a quagmire. We are up to close to $8tn. And we're bringing our folks back home. We have great, talented military.
Lindsey Graham is talking about imposing economic sanctions on Turkey over this incursion into Syria. What do you think about that? Would you...
I think it's OK.
...support that?
I've already told that the President Erdogan. Far more than sanctions. I want to... I'll do far more than sanctions. Lindsey and I feel differently. I think Lindsey would like to stay there for the next 200 years and maybe add a couple 100,000 people every place. But, I disagree with Lindsey on that. But, I will tell you that I do agree on sanctions, but I actually think much tougher than sanctions. If he doesn't do it in as humane a way as possible.
Now the Kurds are fighting for the land... just so you understand... they're fighting for their land. And as somebody wrote in a very, very powerful article today, they didn't help us in the second world war. They didn't help us with Normandy, as an example. They mentioned names of different battles. They were there, but they're there to help us with their land. And that's a different thing in addition to...