I am so tired of correcting you people...
- 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.
Thanks God for Donald Trump? I think not.
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter...st_ISIL#International_coalitions_against_ISIL
And in regards to North Korea, Trump's unorthodoxy amounted to mere public insults and poor behavior. Legitimizing it as some sort of calculated Trump tactic is foolish. Everything going on right now is largely only between the North and the South and people would be wise to look into the historical precedence here. The North and the South are talking, despite Trump. But talks between the two have absolutely nothing to do with the North wanting to give up it's Ace in the hole (nukes).