Lindsey Graham actually said...

If it were up to the Kurds, there would be 50,000 American troops in Kurdistan.

It is in our national security interest to continue pressure on al Qaeda wherever we find them either by ourselves or through partners.

I wouldn't have one troop in Afghanistan or Iraq without a status of forces agreement, that he was absolutely right to insist on that.

We were one perceived slight or insult away from these guys shooting each other, and we need to have a follow-on force to keep tensions low.