{"id":34314,"date":"2018-12-19T19:17:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T19:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34314"},"modified":"2018-12-19T19:17:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T19:17:58","slug":"have-we-gotten-rid-of-isis-permanently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34314","title":{"rendered":"Have we gotten rid of ISIS permanently?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency.”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

So said Donald J. Trump this morning via Twitter as he signaled a planned withdrawal of about 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria.<\/p>\n

I am dubious of this declaration of victory. My concern is as it has been throughout the war on terror, which commenced after 9\/11. It is that a declaration of victory is a tenuous proposition at best.<\/p>\n

The Islamic State is not — as President Obama infamously described it — the “junior varsity” of terror organizations. ISIS is the real thing. They are monstrous murderers who have, along with al-Qaida, perverted a great world religion and used it to justify their horrendous attacks on fellow Muslims, let alone against Christians and Jews.<\/p>\n

To suggest that we can declare categorical victory in the fight against ISIS is risky in the extreme.<\/p>\n

How will we respond if ISIS launches another hideous attack in Syria after we have left? Do we send the troops back in?<\/p>\n

The president has gotten some push back<\/a> from congressional allies, such as Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who called a U.S. withdrawal from Syria “a big win for ISIS.” He said pulling out prematurely would be an “Obama-like mistake.”<\/p>\n

This war against terror cannot possibly be concluded the way “conventional wars” have ended, with someone on one side surrendering and then signing documents signaling the end of a conflict.<\/p>\n

I don’t yet know how you determine whether you’ve eradicated the last known terrorist from any battlefield. I just fear we haven’t accomplished that mission in Syria, or anywhere else.<\/p>\n\n

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“We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency.” So said Donald J. Trump this morning via Twitter as he signaled a planned withdrawal of about 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria. I am dubious of this declaration of victory. My concern is as it has been throughout the … Continue reading Have we gotten rid of ISIS permanently?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[95,1424,2348,2362,5177],"class_list":["post-34314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-95","tag-donald-trump","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34316,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34314\/revisions\/34316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}