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