Posted on 12/08/2017 8:10:57 AM PST by blam
BAGHDAD – Hundreds of ISIS fighters had just been chased out of a northern Syrian city and were fleeing through the desert in long convoys, presenting an easy target to U.S. A-10 "warthogs."
But the orders to bomb the black-clad jihadists never came, and the terrorists melted into their caliphate -- living to fight another day. The events came in August 2016, even as then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was vowing on the campaign trail to let generals in his administration crush the organization that, under President Obama, had grown from the “jayvee team” to the world’s most feared terrorist organization.
“I will…quickly and decisively bomb the hell out of ISIS,” Trump, who would name legendary Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis as secretary of defense, promised. “We will not have to listen to the politicians who are losing the war on terrorism."
Just over a year later, ISIS has been routed from Iraq and Syria with an ease and speed that's surprised even the men and women who carried out the mission. Experts say it's a prime example of a campaign promise kept. President Trump scrapped his predecessor’s rules of engagement, which critics say hamstrung the military, and let battlefield decisions be made by the generals in the theater, and not bureaucrats in Washington.
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Mattis must not have quite had things together by then. Obama left the military in “Tatters” after all.
That, and the fact that the fat convoy target which was not attacked happened in 2016, when Mattis certainly did not “have things together.” Obama still being in office and all . . .
Bottom line is this admin has done more in less than a year than previous admins did in 4 eight years.
“Trump, Mattis Turn Military Loose On ISIS, Leaving Terror Caliphate In Tatters”
totally ignored by the fake stream media ...
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