Trump's Simultaneous Annihilation of ISIS and CNN
We have gone from Obama’s no-victory policy of attrition and failure to Trump’s policy of victory in just seven weeks via annihilation of the enemy. Turns out that applies to CNN as well.
by Jack Wheeler
July 7, 2017
On May 19, Secretary of Defense Mattis announced that President Trump’s strategy regarding the barbarian terrorists of ISIS would be radically different from that of his predecessor:
“[President Trump] directed a tactical shift from shoving ISIS out of safe locations in an attrition fight to surrounding the enemy in their strongholds so we can annihilate ISIS.”
That is exactly what has happened. We have gone from Zero’s no victory policy of attrition and spectacular failure to Trump’s policy of victory via annihilation of the enemy – and it is proving to be a spectacular success.
On Sunday (7/02), the New York Times headline was: U.S.-Backed Forces Close to Trapping ISIS Holdouts in Raqqa.
This morning (7/06), the London Daily Mail headline is: ISIS Near Total Defeat in Mosul, Holds Just 600 Square Yards in Old City.
How did this happen in both of ISIS capitals of Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria? Rowan Scarborough in the Washington Times explains (7/02): Trum…