Trump's acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan exaggerates ISIS' defeat
by Tom Rogan
| January 29, 2019 03:16 PM
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan wrongly claimed that the Islamic State terrorist threat has been significantly reduced by the Trump administration's evolving policy in Syria.
While President Trump deserves credit for unleashing the U.S. military and intelligence community to take the fight more aggressively to ISIS in 2017 and 2018, Shanahan is far too confident about the situation in January 2019. Shanahan said:
The way I would probably characterize the military operations that we've conducted in Syria is that the risk of terrorism and mass migration has been significantly mitigated. ... They no longer hold key territory. They no longer control significant population centers.
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