First and foremost is the fact that remnants of Islamic State in Syria continue to pose a threat. Trump tweeted Wednesday: “We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency.” But as Brett McGurk, Trump’s representative to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, said last week: “Obviously, it would be reckless if we were just to say, ‘Well, the physical caliphate is defeated, so we can just leave now.”
Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times