Because, look, whatever your views on the Iraq war were, the consequence of our invasion of Iraq is that we destroyed one of the great historical Christian communities in the world. We don't want to allow that to happen again. We're certainly not going to put troops in Syria. We're going. But there are a lot of things that we can do diplomatically and economically to protect some of those groups. (04:11–04:14)
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