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Donald Trump Will Defeat ISISAnd it will be mostly due to the work of his predecessor. Andrew Exum Feb 17, 2017 The dysfunction at the highest levels of the American government right now obscures a dramatic reality: Donald Trump is going to defeat the Islamic State, and Americans need to be fine with that.Like most of the people reading this, I have been so completely absorbed by the drama at the White House over the past week that its been easy to lose track of what’s taking place on the ground in the Middle East, where U.S. troops, diplomats, and intelligence professionals continue to work by, with, and through local forces to destroy the Islamic State.Related StoryRadicalization and the Travel BanWhen President Obama turned the affairs of state over to President Trump on January 20th, the Islamic State was in full retreat across Iraq and Syria. This was no accident: In the fall of 2015, while I was serving as the head of the Pentagon’s Middle East policy shop, the Obama administration ramped up its campaign against the group—and began to see the effects of that escalation when Iraqi forces retook Ramadi in December of 2015....Victory has a thousand fathers—the loudest and orangest of which will be the president. But victory still beats defeat.Read Full Article At: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/02/donald-trump-will-defeat-isis/517062/
