The ISIS Defeat Myth

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The ISIS Defeat Myth
By Danny Sjursen
http://thehill.com
Posted 2018-01-24 17:17 GMT

Under President Obama's watch, the Islamic State conquered a so-called caliphate the size of Ohio in Syria and Iraq. Luckily a new, "tough" president -- Donald Trump -- stepped in, loosed restrictions on his military, and, defeated the bad guys. At least that's the popular story and the party line.

Of course, the ground-level truth is much messier.

If ISIS is so decisively and irreversibly defeated, how then to explain last week's gruesome double-suicide bombing in Baghdad and expert warnings that up to 10,000 ISIS loyalists remain in Iraq and Syria?

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