{"id":34335,"date":"2018-12-20T03:31:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T03:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34335"},"modified":"2018-12-20T03:31:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T03:31:28","slug":"have-we-really-defeated-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34335","title":{"rendered":"Have we really defeated ISIS?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/untitled-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34121\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/untitled-1-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/untitled-1-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/untitled-1.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am wishing for the day when we no longer have troops fighting terrorists abroad. To that end, I join with Donald Trump in saluting the young Americans who put themselves in harm&#8217;s way to defend us against the monsters who hate us.<\/p>\n<p>However, the president has acted prematurely and impulsively in declaring the war against the Islamic State in Syria is over. &#8220;ISIS is defeated,&#8221; he said. But is it? Really? How does he make that determination?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re getting word now that Trump didn&#8217;t consult with the Pentagon brass. He didn&#8217;t visit with State Department officials. The CIA wasn&#8217;t brought in for consultation. He didn&#8217;t talk to the director of national intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>He just, um, did it. He made the declaration via Twitter. He has said we&#8217;re getting out of Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Who benefits? The Russians do. So do the Turks, who hate the Kurds who have been dying while fighting on our side against ISIS, but who pose a threat to Turkish sovereignty along that country&#8217;s border with Syria. Iran is happy with this seat-of-the-pants decision.<\/p>\n<p>The president has gotten way ahead of himself.<\/p>\n<p>He surrounded himself with advisers, key aides, top military minds, a national security adviser. Did he listen to any of them? Did he even seek their advice?<\/p>\n<p>It appears he acted entirely on his own. The president who declares he knows everything about everything has shown yet again that he knows nothing about anything.<\/p>\n<p>Weird.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am wishing for the day when we no longer have troops fighting terrorists abroad. To that end, I join with Donald Trump in saluting the young Americans who put themselves in harm&#8217;s way to defend us against the monsters who hate us. However, the president has acted prematurely and impulsively in declaring the war &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34335\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Have we really defeated ISIS?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1424,2348,2362,3544,4050,8230],"class_list":["post-34335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-pentagon","tag-russia","tag-syria-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34335","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=34335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34336,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34335\/revisions\/34336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}