{"id":393645,"date":"2019-01-21T19:30:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T18:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/make-no-mistake-isis-needs-the-us-to-survive\/"},"modified":"2019-01-21T19:30:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T18:30:56","slug":"make-no-mistake-isis-needs-the-us-to-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/make-no-mistake-isis-needs-the-us-to-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"Make No Mistake: ISIS Needs the US To Survive"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cNo war is over until the enemy says it\u2019s over,\u201d\u00a0James Mattis, the former Marine Corps General and recently resigned secretary of state, is\u00a0quoted as saying<\/a>. \u201cWe may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.\u201d Mattis\u2019s statement was made in 2012, well before President Donald Trump, in a surprise announcement on December 19, declared victory over the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, better known as ISIS.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency,\u201d\u00a0the\u00a0president wrote<\/a>.\u00a0He\u00a0later expanded on that sentiment\u00a0in a video message<\/a>, posted on Twitter. \u201cOur boys, our young men and women, are coming home now,\u201d Trump noted. \u201cWe won.\u201d<\/p>\n

But a recent attack on U.S. forces in Syria, carried out by a suicide bomber which ISIS claimed was operating on its behalf, has led to an outpouring of criticism of Trump\u2019s precipitous decision. \u201cISIS has claimed credit for killing American troops in Syria today,\u201d\u00a0Senator Marco Rubio tweeted<\/a>\u00a0in the aftermath of the attack. \u201cIf true, it is a tragic reminder that ISIS not been defeated and is transforming into a dangerous insurgency. This is no time to retreat from the fight against ISIS. Will only embolden & strengthen them.\u201d
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While Mattis\u2019s words were a cautionary warning about premature celebration, Rubio\u2019s sentiments, along with those who share his point of view, miss the point of the ISIS attack altogether. The U.S. was on the verge of withdrawing from Syria, something Rubio and others believe would give ISIS a victory. Why, then, would ISIS attack American forces in such a…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cNo war is over until the enemy says it\u2019s over,\u201d\u00a0James Mattis, the former Marine Corps General and recently resigned secretary of state, is\u00a0quoted as saying. \u201cWe may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.\u201d Mattis\u2019s statement was made in 2012, well before President Donald Trump, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-393645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}