FOREIGN POLICY/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “US President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union touched on a number of international issues, including North Korea and the battle to defeat ISIS, but he didn’t offer any specifics and barely mentioned Russia or China… Here’s what he did include:
ISIS
One of Trump’s major foreign policy successes, he says, is a decisive victory against ISIS, which until recently held swathes of territory, alongside major population centers in Iraq and Syria.
‘Last year, I also pledged that we would work with our allies to extinguish ISIS from the face of the Earth,’ he said Tuesday [1-31-18].
‘One year later, I am proud to report that the coalition to defeat ISIS has liberated almost 100 percent of the territory once held by these killers in Iraq and Syria. But there is much more work to be done. We will continue our fight until ISIS is defeated.’
The defeat of ISIS has been a long time coming, and most of the anti-ISIS campaign took place under the Obama administration, CNN’s national security analyst Peter Bergen said at the end of last year, but the Trump national security team helped to hasten its defeat.”
-Euan McKirdy, “What Trump said about ISIS, Iran and North Korea in his State of the Union speech,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Jan. 31, 2018 03:51am