Posted on 12/27/2017 9:04:38 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
ISIS has lost 98 percent of its territory -- mostly since Trump took office, officials say
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The massive gains come after years of "onerous" rules, when critics say the Obama administration “micromanaged” the war and shunned a more intensive air strategy that could have ended the conflict much sooner.
“The rules of engagement under the Obama administration were onerous. I mean what are we doing having individual target determination being conducted in the White House, which in some cases adds weeks and weeks,” said retired Air Force Lt. Gen. David Deptula, the former head of U.S. Air Force intelligence. “The limitations that were put on actually resulted in greater civilian casualties.”
But the senior director for counterterrorism in former President Barack Obama’s National Security Council pushed back on any criticism the former president didn’t do enough to defeat ISIS.
“This was a top priority from the early days of ISIS gaining the type of territorial safe haven in particular, there was recognition that safe havens for terrorist groups can mean terrorist plots that extend — not just into the region — but to Europe and conceivably into the United States,” said Joshua Geltzer, author of “US Counter-Terrorism Strategy and al-Qaeda: Signalling and the Terrorist World-View,” now a visiting professor at Georgetown Law School.
The latest American intelligence assessment says fewer than 1,000 ISIS fighters now remain in Iraq and Syria, down from a peak of nearly 45,000 just two years ago. U.S. officials credit nearly 30,000 U.S.-led coalition airstrikes and regional partners on the ground for killing more than 70,000 jihadists. Meanwhile, only a few thousand have returned home.
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Trump to ISIS: You didn’t build that. buwahahahahaha.
Not a word on my 6 pm news. Looks like the news media are unhappy about it!
Obama/Clinton and America’s governing elites (ie. McCain) were in league with the Saudis for regime-change and geo-political, strategic advantage in Syria. ISIS was simply a tool for that end.
Russia unexpectedly blocked those plans.
We know US provided overt support to many jihadi groups, and we know US weapons quickly wound up in the hands of ISIS. We know Chris Stevens was in Benghazi to monitor Khaffafy regime’s captured weapons flow to Syria. Is it too far a leap to imagine that Obama/the Saudis knew what ISIS was about all along?
Also, is it merely a coincidence that once America had “regime change” in January 2017, that ISIS suddenly collapsed?
No coincidence, and it shows the grand meaning and purpose of Make America Great Again!
It’s the Middle East. They can recruit thousands of terrorists in a moment’s notice.
It looks like he’s doing the same to the Taliban, they are bombing their drug labs.
This is fitting as the majority of territory ISIS
gained was during the Obama regime.
Trump 45!
Obama is on the side of ISIS.
Another Obama idea that President Trump has got rid of. McCain had a hand in this.
Is it merely a coincidence that once America had “regime change” in January 2017, that ISIS suddenly collapsed?
“Regime change in U.S. led to the same in Saudi. Qatari are boxed in. Case closed.”
Amazing how so many “impossible” problems just collapsed after 20 January 2017 around the world and in America.
Thanks to the Russian military who finally cleaned up the various McCain, CIA, Pentagon, and Mossad jihadists
Remember: Bush won the war. Obama gave it all back. Trump had to come in and win it again.
The Taliban are bombing their drug Labs?
No, it is not. But it does make me suspect that under the Obama regime, the U.S. was funding pretty much 100% of ISIS's efforts.
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