This is so ****ing ignorant. Allow me to steal you away from your pathetic altar of Trump worship so that I can embarrass you with historical fact:
- August, 2014: Speaking about U.S. airstrikes on IS in Iraq, Obama declared that "
this is going to be a long-term project."
- August, 2014: Kurdish and Iraqi government forces, with the help of those airstrikes, took back the Mosul Dam from IS.
- September, 2014: Obama announced that he would begin to pursue
airstrikes in Syria against IS with or without congressional approval.
- October, 2014: The Department of Defense formally established
Combined JTF - Operation Inherent Resolve to deal with IS.
- December, 2014: At NATO headquarters in Brussels, diplomats and foreign ministers from 59 countries
gathered to plot a way forward against the threat of IS.
- January, 2015:
Half of IS' leaders in Iraq and Syria had been killed off; and the US began coordinating airstrikes with a Kurdish launched ground offensive.
- February, 2015: Another 1,300 US troops were deployed to Iraq to
advise, increasing the number of
US ground troops in Iraq to 4,400.
- February, 2015: Last ISIS stronghold in Aleppo province falls.
- May, 2015: Iraqi/Turkish forces had taken Tikrit, Ramadi, and Tal Abyad back from IS. IS becomes more active to control territory in Syria.
- October, 2015: Iraqi forces regain Iraq's largest oil refinery from IS.
- November, 2015: Kurdish forces regain Sinjar from IS.
- February, 2016: Iraqi forces retake (again) Ramadi from IS.
- June, 2016:
Iraqi forces regain Fallujah from IS.
- January, 2017: Donald Trump shows up at the White House.
- July, 2017: The Iraqi Prime Minister, Abadi, formally declared a local Iraqi victory over IS on July 10, 2017 and then declare total control of the Syrian/Iraqi border in December,
after three years of airstrikes and ground assaults.
Did you catch all of this inconvenient history or was the facts too threatening to your need to play partisan foolishness?
I'll summarize: In August 2014, IS was targeted in at least Libya, Afghanistan, Cameroon, Somalia, and Yemen. By September of 2014, IS began losing ground in Iraq; and major city footholds began to fall, starting with the Mosul Dam territory. The years-long close-air campaign consisted of U.S., British, Dutch, French, Jordanian, and Moroccan airstrikes. Before Trump took office in January of 2017, IS was reeling and it's occupation in Iraq/Syria had been reduced to near nothing.
He inherited what was already a done deal. By declaring that Trump did this, so that you can show everybody what a loyal subject you are, you actually **** all over the troops who had spent years defeating IS' territorial claims in the air and on the ground.