Of terrorism or and the ongoing conflict in syria but it will certainly send a message to those who would question americas resolve and provide a warning to terrorists who think they can hide the United States more than any other nation in the world possesses the power and the will to hunt to the ends of the earth those who wish to bring harm upon the American People saturdays operation is just one example of the incredible determination and great skill of the United States military and now asked general milley to provide you with some Additional Details on the operation thank you. So good afternoon everyone as secretary as for stated the United States special Operations Forces under the command of control of United States Central Command general franks mackenzie conducted a count of terrorism operations which resulted in the death of the founder and leader of Isis Bacher Baghdadi intelligence from numerous organizations throughout the department of defense and across the entire intera
From syria. Your view on that. Smart move or damaging . We havent actually done a full pullout and we should go all the way like President Trump promised and pull all our troops out of syria. I think it was the right move to pull our troops off the border. We didnt have an interest in being the middle of a fight between an imperfect nato ally in turkey and our local partners who are connected to a state department designated terrorist organization in the kurdish ypg. It was a good move to start a larger pullout. I dont think its in our behindt to leave troops in eastern syria, the worse oilfields in the least. When do you think that what happened . I would hope as soon as possible. Setave accomplished what we out to do and we shouldnt leave our troops behind to try and engage in yet another nationbuilding exercise in the middle east. Weve been hearing from democrats and republicans that this is damaging to security. I think theres a lot of hysteria around what was happening in syria. T
Deputies that are in start opposition of the pressure on these more or future news point this. Thanks so much for your thoughts and analysis on that some of the violence here. Thank you very much. U. S. Defense secretary monk esp a says despite the death of ice a leader of baghdad the on sunday the security situation in syria remains complex he was speaking at a News Conference at the pentagon espec confirmed again that u. S. Troops will remain in syria to secure oil fields in the north and repel any future i saw a text from defense secretary says they disposed all remains of baghdad he who detonated a suicide vest to kill it as u. S. Forces cornered him in. Baghdad his death will not read the world of terrorism or and the ongoing conflict in syria but it will certainly send a message to those who would question americas resolve and provide a warning to terrorists who think they can hide. The United States more than any other nation in the world possesses the power and the will to hunt
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