US President Donald Trump has signed yet another executive order directing the military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff to devise a plan within 30 days to destroy the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group.
Trump signed the military directive on Saturday, along with two other executive orders, including one imposing restrictions on highly lucrative lobbying for foreign governments by administration officials.
In remarks following the order to military commanders, Trump said, “I think it’s going to be very successful. That’s big stuff.”
The move was apparently aimed to signal that the new US president was serious about delivering on his campaign pledge to tackle “global terrorism” more aggressively than his Democratic predecessor, former President Barack Obama, whom he has accused of establishing the notorious terror group that has taken over large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria and engaged in exporting their oil reserves.
This is while both Trump…