Trump State of the Union gets it half right and half wrong on ISIS

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President Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday offered a half-good, half-bad commentary on the Islamic State.

On the negative side of things, Trump noted that “three years ago, the barbarians of ISIS held over 20,000 square miles of territory in Iraq and Syria. Today, the ISIS territorial caliphate has been 100% destroyed.”

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