they have named a new leader. the ideology is not going away, just because al-baghdadi is gone. that s absolutely right. i was in iraq two weeks ago, we went to what used to be the front line with isis, no longer the front line because isis doesn t have bases, but the commanders they tell me they can still see isis fighters recruiting people, trying to take talents and engage in training. it is still a threat. we have a new leader announced today on the isis media website. sometimes, a new leader can invigorate an organization. i agree with you and with kt that president trump deserves credit for taking out al-baghdadi, no one cause more pain and suffering than al-baghdadi, and he deserved to go out the way he did get our special operators also deserve credit. but president trump also did make a mistake by pulling our troops out of syria. that made it harder for us to do the operation pure thank out the operation to get al-baghdadi was successful, but now i have to b,
so they expect that. they also expect that the u.s. has to negotiate with the taliban and come to some conclusion. it s other groups, al qaeda, a little bit of isis which is a bit over blown at this moment, the old haqqani network out of pakistan still there trying to stake any claim they can to power to whatever the results of these talks are going to produce. there are terrorist organizations in several countries, yemen, syria, libya, somalia, all of them with similar intent to want to attack the united states but we don t have thousands of troops in those countries. why would you make the argument you have to stay in afghanistan to have troops there? we don t have thousands of troops in those countries but we have troops in all of those countries. the u.s. is at war all over the place against terrorist groups. one reason for afghanistan is simple geography. i tell people, look, the difference between afghanistan and places like those you mentioned in the middle east, the united