"I have communicated with the Vice President," Graham tells CBN News. "The decision has been made and the President certainly had his reasons and I respect his decision. Now we have to deal with the fallout."

When President Trump made the decision to pullback American troops in the region last week, Graham, who is a close personal friend of the president, called on Trump to reconsider the move, citing the real possibilities of ethnic cleansing and religious persecution. Since then, there has been evidence on the ground that Turkey is doing exactly that.

"Hopefully the President can persuade the Turkish military to stop and have possibly a cease-fire because there are so many civilians caught in this," says Graham. "The Turks are talking about putting in a safe zone and I really doubt those are their intentions. I think they want to take the entire border of Syria so there will be hundreds of thousands of more people (as refugees) if that's the case."

Graham also told CBN News that in the next 24 hours or so, his Samaritan's Purse organization will be sending relief items to the area to provide humanitarian aid.

Graham has also taken a prayerful tone as he acknowledges that the situation is a complicated one. "I think the Vice President and the President want our prayers and I would encourage people to pray for the Vice President, the President. These are very hard decisions we have to make."

He said now is not the time for playing armchair quarterback.

"I just don't want to try to second-guess them," Graham tells CBN News. "There are a lot of other factors that are involved in his decisions. There's tens of thousands of Americans that live in Turkey, we have bases in Turkey, they're part of NATO, we have agreements with Turkey. So I understand, we have those types of relationships. The President has said he wants a cease-fire. I think he's been very direct on that and I think he will do what he can." Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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