Pentagon Continues to Resist Syria Pullout With ‘Warning’ About ISIS Resurgence
Warns ISIS might reclaim some territory if nobody resists them
Jason Ditz
The Pentagon leadership has made no bones about not being keen on withdrawing from Syria, and even as they claim to be resigned to doing so, they continue to issue reports clearly intended to scare the administration away from the plan.
This new report, the full contents of which will be available on Monday, affirms that ISIS has lost materially of its its territory in both Iraq and Syria, but then warns it is conceivable that ISIS might regain some territory if left totally alone to do so.
The message is intended to be interpreted by US readers as saying the US needs to keep pressuring ISIS militarily, though in practice it really just means that any attempts by ISIS to reclaim lost territory need to be resisted by somebody, which they would with or without a US presence.
This new report, the full contents of which will be available on Monday, affirms that ISIS has lost materially of its its territory in both Iraq and Syria, but then warns it is conceivable that ISIS might regain some territory if left totally alone to do so.
The message is intended to be interpreted by US readers as saying the US needs to keep pressuring ISIS militarily, though in practice it really just means that any attempts by ISIS to reclaim lost territory need to be resisted by somebody, which they would with or without a US presence.
https://news.antiwar.com/2019/02/01/pentagon-continues-to-resist-syria-pullout-with-warning-about-isis-resurgence/
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