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Speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Mulroy said the SDF bore most of the burden when it came to defeating a caliphate. He went on to say that the DoD could not carry out the NDS without partners like the SDF.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/us-warned-turkey-only-last-week-that-attacking-kurds-helps-isis |title=US warned Turkey only last week that attacking Kurds helps ISIS |date=October 7, 2019 |website=Washington Examiner}}</ref> On the large IDP camp at al-Hawl, he explained that many of the children in the camps were only learning the beliefs of ISIS the entire time they are in that camp. If the international community does not come up with a way to rehabilitate them and reintegrate them into society, they are the next generation of ISIS.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/2/in-syrian-endgame-us-officials-see-challenge-from-/ |title=In Syrian endgame, U.S. officials see a challenge from ISIS, Bashar Assad |last=Meier |first=Lauren |website=The Washington Times}}</ref>
Speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Mulroy said the SDF bore most of the burden when it came to defeating a caliphate. He went on to say that the DoD could not carry out the NDS without partners like the SDF.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/us-warned-turkey-only-last-week-that-attacking-kurds-helps-isis |title=US warned Turkey only last week that attacking Kurds helps ISIS |date=October 7, 2019 |website=Washington Examiner}}</ref> On the large IDP camp at al-Hawl, he explained that many of the children in the camps were only learning the beliefs of ISIS the entire time they are in that camp. If the international community does not come up with a way to rehabilitate them and reintegrate them into society, they are the next generation of ISIS.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/2/in-syrian-endgame-us-officials-see-challenge-from-/ |title=In Syrian endgame, U.S. officials see a challenge from ISIS, Bashar Assad |last=Meier |first=Lauren |website=The Washington Times}}</ref>
"We need to pick one. We need to fund it. And we need to do something." Mulroy said. "If we don't do it as an international community, not just the United States, it's a problem that our children will be dealing with," he continued.<ref name="auto8" /><ref>{{cite web|last=Seldin|first=Jeff|date=October 3, 2019|title=US Urges 'Plan B' for Islamic State Fighters, Families in Syria|url=https://www.voanews.com/middle-east/us-urges-plan-b-islamic-state-fighters-families-syria|website=Voice of America}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/us-urges-plan-b-islamic-state-fighters-families-syria |title=U.S. Urges 'Plan B' for Islamic State Fighters, Families in Syria | Small Wars Journal |website=smallwarsjournal.com}}</ref> He said that if we don't do that, we will be back there, for sure, doing this again "we owe it to the people that live there, who have borne unspeakable burdens, and we owe it to the men and women that are going to come after us at the State Department, at the Defense Department, that we don't just leave this undone."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thehour.com/opinion/article/Trump-just-destroyed-his-own-Syria-strategy-14504357.php |title=Trump just destroyed his own Syria strategy |last=Rogin |first=Josh |date=October 9, 2019 |website=The Hour}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/10/11/world/us-turkey-gift-to-syrias-assad/ |title=U.S. and Turkey's moves give Assad hope of regaining control over most of Syria |last=Carey |first=Glen |date=October 11, 2019 |newspaper=The Japan Times}}</ref>
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