ISIS was growing in power the entire 8 years Obama was in office. Trump eliminated them in less than a year. What does that say?
Send those 2000 south to Israel, to help rescue American hostages in Gaza.
On NO! Pedo Jo! is going to be doing another victory lap. The boy “won”! USA, USA, USA, LOL.
The Middle East is the eternal tar baby.
GTFO!
StayTFO!
Don’t fall for any attempt to get sucked back into that craphole. We have all the oil we will ever need. We don’t need the problems. Eff neocons.
They disobeyed orders
“Trump orders US troops to leave Syria as White House declares victory over ISIS”
Biden orders US troops to surrender in Syria as White House allows ISIS to be reborn
There, fixed it
Why is this posted today.
We never left Syria. We have bases to transport oil we have stolen from Syria, terrorist training facilities.
Outgoing Syria Envoy Admits Hiding US Troop Numbers from Trump
Defense One ^ | November 13, 2020 | Katie Bo Williams
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/11/outgoing-syria-envoy-admits-hiding-us-troop-numbers-praises-trumps-mideast-record/170012/
Outgoing Syria Envoy Admits Hiding US Troop Numbers; Praises Trump’s Mideast Record
‘We were always playing shell games,’ says Amb. Jim Jeffrey, who also gives advice to President-elect Biden.
Four years after signing the now-infamous “Never Trump” letter condemning then-presidential candidate Donald Trump as a danger to America, retiring diplomat Jim Jeffrey is recommending that the incoming Biden administration stick with Trump’s foreign policy in the Middle East.
But even as he praises the president’s support of what he describes as a successful “realpolitik” approach to the region, he acknowledges that his team routinely misled senior leaders about troop levels in Syria.
“We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there,” Jeffrey said in an interview. The actual number of troops in northeast Syria is “a lot more than” the roughly two hundred troops Trump initially agreed to leave there in 2019.
Trump’s abruptly-announced withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria remains perhaps the single-most controversial foreign policy move during his first years in office, and for Jeffrey, “the most controversial thing in my fifty years in government.” The order, first handed down in December 2018, led to the resignation of former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. It catapulted Jeffrey, then Trump’s special envoy for Syria, into the role of special envoy in the counter-ISIS fight when it sparked the protest resignation of his predecessor, Brett McGurk.
For Jeffrey, the incident was far less cut-and-dry — but it is ultimately a success story that ended with U.S. troops still operating in Syria, denying Russian and Syrian territorial gains and preventing ISIS remnants from reconstituting.
In 2018 and again in October of 2019, when Trump repeated the withdrawal order, the president boasted that ISIS was “defeated.” But each time, the president was convinced to leave a residual force in Syria and the fight continued.
“What Syria withdrawal? There was never a Syria withdrawal,” Jeffrey said. “When the situation in northeast Syria had been fairly stable after we defeated ISIS, [Trump] was inclined to pull out. In each case, we then decided to come up with five better arguments for why we needed to stay. And we succeeded both times. That’s the story.”