White House Says U.S. Will Remain in Syria Despite Trump's Eagerness to Withdraw

[TheCount]

The White House said on Wednesday that the United States is committed to continuing to fight the Islamic State in Syria, signaling a retreat by President Trump from his insistence that the 2,000 American forces there quickly return home from the conflict.

"The military mission to eradicate ISIS in Syria is coming to a rapid end, with ISIS being almost completely destroyed," Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the press secretary, said in a statement issued one day after Mr. Trump met with military commanders to discuss the future of the mission. "The United States and our partners remain committed to eliminating the small ISIS presence in Syria that our forces have not already eradicated."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/world/middleeast/trump-syria-troops.html


Womp womp.

[dannno]

I'm going to guess we are 98% of the way there by now.

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[dannno]

The neocons are expending a lot of political capital to keep troops in Syria for a very short time longer, will this benefit them in the longrun or it will it cause Trump to pull out of Afghanistan and other areas more quickly?

[timosman]

What is exactly that we are doing over there?:cool: