There's a fundamental difference that we do not make clear as a country, let alone an administration, between putting troops under treaty obligations to defend territory and people against somebody else and the troops that we had in northeast Syria fighting ISIS.
Jeffrey discusses the distinction between treaty obligations and troop deployments.
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