Pompeo: There are places where ISIS is more powerful today than they were three or four years ago

[Miles Archer]

The Islamic State group remains a threat in Syria and Iraq, and in some areas has even gained power despite the elimination of their “caliphate”, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday.

“There are places where ISIS is more powerful today than they were three or four years ago,” Pompeo said on CBS’s “This Morning” show.

“But the caliphate is gone in their capacity to conduct external attacks, it’s been made much more difficult,” he said.

“We’ve taken down significant risk. Not all of it, but a significant amount. We’re very pleased with the work that we’ve done.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/islamic-state-persists-despite-territory-loss-pompeo/

[NewJeffCT]

1. I thought ISIS would be wiped out by February 21, 2017?

Trump said he'd defeat them in 30 days. I just calculated that it's 910 days since February 21, 2017.

[Miles Archer]

2. I'm remembering clips of Trump claiming "ISIS has been defeated"...maybe "ISIS is on the run..."

One thing's for sure, if there are "places where they are more powerful than 3 or 4 years ago," they BECAME "more powerful" after the orange goon entered the picture. It's impossible to spin that little detail.

[spanone]

3. 16 times Trump said ISIS was defeated, or soon would be

03/23/19

President Trump said in a statement Saturday that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has been defeated, and that the U.S., as part of a coalition, "has has liberated all ISIS-controlled territory in Syria and Iraq—100 Percent of the “caliphate.”

His remarks followed comments from White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders the previous day that ISIS no longer held any territory.

Trump made a similar declaration more than three months ago. And over the following 95 days or so, Trump on 16 occasions either claimed ISIS had been defeated or would be eliminated within hours or days.
The first such declaration -- Trump announced on Twitter that ISIS had been defeated and that the U.S. would withdraw almost all of its troops from Syria -- prompted Secretary of Defense James Mattis to resign the following day.

With each subsequent proclamation, the Pentagon struggled to offer a response that correctly reflected the events on the ground in the war-torn country, while not directly contradicting the commander in chief.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/435402-16-times-trump-declared-or-predicted-the-demise-of-isis

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. Didn't orange asshole do a mission accomplished about Isis?

Quelle surprise....yet another fail

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Didn't Spanky single-handedly defeat ISIS?