It was controlled under the Obama administration until President Trump tore up a diplomatic deal. And many of us told him at the time, if you make diplomacy impossible, you will make war inevitable. And so now US troops are dying, others are being injured, civilians are being injured. And now we're trying to have a negotiation to return to a status quo that we had with diplomacy. This is not only an illegal war, it's an incredibly foolish one. (00:59–01:05)
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