head of the taliban in 2016 and they're alive more than ever. in 2016 they killed the leader of al qaeda in iraq. that doesn't do anything to improve the situation in iraq. it did everything to raise up al-baghdadi. we may be seeing a resurgence of the islamic tastate. they've been restaging more terrorist attacks. now the way we managed to defeat the caliphate was through the u.s./kurdish alliance and that's dead because president trump has very foolishly pulled u.s. troops out of most of syria and abandoned the kurds. that's the alliance that made it possible to defeat the caliphate and kill al-baghdadi. now trump is disbanding that alliance at a moment when there's an opportunity for an isis resurgence despite the