Posted on 08/10/2017 8:13:42 AM PDT by HokieMom
Nearly a third of territory reclaimed from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria since 2014 has been won in the past six months, due to new policies adopted by the Trump administration, a senior State Department official said Friday.
Brett McGurk, the State Department’s senior envoy to the anti-Islamic State coalition, said that steps President Trump has taken, including delegating decision-making authority down from the White House to commanders in the field, have “dramatically accelerated” gains against the militants.
Combined Islamic State losses in both countries since the group’s peak control in early 2015 total about 27,000 square miles of territory — 78 percent of militant holdings in Iraq and 58 percent in Syria. About 8,000 square miles have been reclaimed under Trump, McGurk said in a briefing for reporters.
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"Under Trump, gains against #ISIS have dramatically accelerated"
The WaPo editors must have had a stroke in order to print this!...................
WP: Under Trump, gains against ISIS have ‘dramatically accelerated’
WP: Under Trump, gains against ISIS have ‘actually occurred’.
Fixed it for you
Ha, true.
Gee Freepers its almost as if Zero wanted them to succeed.....NOT ALMOST!!
Freegards
“The WaPo editors must have had a stroke in order to print this!...................”
Maybe not, if they think victory over ISIS is a bad thing.
It’s interesting how you get better results, when you decide that the decision makers for a war should be the ones on the ground in the battle instead of some idiot on a golf course who has no idea what’s going on....
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