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A successful outcome. James jeffrey welcome. The sake of context here we go back to december last year the announcement by president. He had won basically over isis in syria and little u. S. Troops would be coming home from syria was costly and misleading wasnt it was misunderstood by everybody it was misunderstood person and made it clear at the time to us to. He wasnt losing the bubble as we say on the fight against isis which he recognized. Nor was he. Losing interest and he said. To time a that the United States would maintain its air cover over there not be. U. S. Special operations personnel he made this point very clear publicly and all the all Assad Air Base in telling the president and secretary of defense are you going to meet with an issue so. That we continue to deploy special forces troops into northeast syria to go after isis if they started showing signs of a th ....
Listening to people including lindsey graham decided that he would keep a residual force on so there was a road back to the president after listening to people that he trusted and decided that. and his eye was involved in these discussions including with lindsey graham and the reason is the president didn t want to have the syria advantage he thought that. as part of his overall. strategy of burden sharing that as the united states did the heavy lifting with at times 15000 ground combat forces in iraq and syria i m not talking about the air power talking about helicopters helicopters we had a major force and they were involved in considerable combat that the follow on our stage for we call it the. stabilization phase could be done by perfectly competent force. from other coalition countries many of whom ....
A whole we now have isis as a terrorism. not all that different from al qaeda that is something that we worry about something that we focus on something that we re working on which is why we re keeping troops on which is why the coalition including some i can tell you exactly how many but it s in the many thousands of some thousands of u.s. troops still in iraq to defy. in iraq and syria so it isn t that we thought the problem is gone away the problem just changed dramatically because we achieved a victory over isis as a political force trump was right in saying that what s been particularly damaging for us syria now lies with the timing of this with the drool the report from the inspector generals that the. duction has decreased the support available to syrian part of the forces at a time when they need more training and equipping to respond to the isis was. combined joint task force also said the drawdown could cause those forces to look ....
Decision to pull troops out of syria decided that we wouldn t be doing reconstruction funding in the northeast anymore and asked us to turn to other countries and we ve been truly 6. yes for collecting it but we have been criticized by the u.s. congress and by some of our but again this is a question of if you $100000000.00 look at how much money we ve put into communitarian assistance president trump but we ve stat. as part of a global coalition against isis global coalition in nato and several other coalitions with many of the same members whose total g.d.p. is roughly double that of the united states that we should not be paying the burden that we re paying and that is simply a view of his it was a view expressed for example in the nato 2 percent by the obama administration before him and it s a view that is held by the american people the american people do not like the deal and which we have to pay a disproportionately high percent of the costs as well as be a most of the military ....
Isis has disappeared and some of the very specific concerns we had particular about the stability of iraq and the region as a whole we now have isis as a terrorist i m. going to say sion not all that different from al qaeda that is something that we worry about something that we focus on something that we re working on which is why we re keeping troops on which is why the coalition including some i can t tell you exactly how many but it s in the many thousands of some thousands of u.s. troops still in iraq to defy. in iraq and syria so it isn t that we thought the problem is gone away the problem just changed dramatically because we achieved a victory over isis as a political force trump was right in saying that what s been particularly damaging for you a suit syrian allies was the timing of this with the drooled the report from the inspector general said the reduction has decreased the support available to syrian ....