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terrorist who attacked us on 9/11 and to degrade the terrorist threat to the united states from afghanistan, and now with that war over, we can more squarely address the most pressing challenges of our day america is on a stronger, strategic footing, more capable to support ukraine and to meat our security commitments around the world as well as the competition with china because it is not fighting a ground war in afghanistan of course we continue to address terrorist threats which, as the president accurately assessed, had migrated to other parts of the world through effective, over the horizon operations including those that took out the leaders of al qaeda and isi isis while it was always the president s intent to end that war, it is also undeniable that decisions made and the lack of planning done by the previous administration significantly limited options available to
all right, welcome back to velshi and ruhle. could it usher in a new faze for the terror group. there is an expectation that a new leader will emerge in the coming weeks and it may provide the opportunity for al qaeda and isis to reconcile. just weeking after president trump ruled that troops should be pulled out of northern syria. they re hoping that siisis militants are hoping to capitalize. joining us now is a senior national security fellow and former director for iraq at the national security council in the bush and obama administrations, doug olavant. one expert told nbc news just like the killing of osama bin
assault backed up with militias. as of two weeks ago, there were about 1,000 u.s. courtrooms. they defeated the size state, they killed tens of thousands of si isis fighters. president trump said those troops will all come home because he wants to pull the united states out of end less wars. that triggered a lot of activity right now. since then we had conflicting statements. first the defense secretary saying no, they re not coming home, but they re just going to go over to iraq where they can continue to fight against isis. continue to fight the trump administration who they said is already over. so if the fight against isis is already over.
iran and assad, big win for isi isis. tucker: whatever politicians in washington tell you they know exactly what s going to happen, be sure not to bet on it. but more deeply, think about it for a second, assad and isis and iran, for that matter, are on different sides of the conflict, so how can an american withdrawal be a win for both sides? that actually doesn t make any sense at all. he didn t explain how that might work, he turned down our offer to come on site so we can only guess. nikki haley meanwhile strongly agrees with grant after resigning as u.n. ambassador, took a job on the board of directors of boeing, the airplane manufacturer. three months ago charge he suggested they may back out of a $10 million deal with boeing to buy jets for turkish airlines. today, perhaps not quintanilla, she tweeted this, we must always have the backs of our allies if we expect them to have our back. at the kurds were instrumental in our successful fight against isis and syria. leaving him t