President Trump promised the United States and her allies would crush the “loser terrorists” who are harming people around the world in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
“We must drive them out of our nations. It is time to expose and hold responsible those countries who support and finance terror groups like al Qaeda, Hezbollah, the Taliban and others that slaughter innocent people,” Trump said. “The United States and our allies are working together throughout the Middle East to crush the loser terrorists and stop the re-emergence of safe havens they use to launch attacks on all of our people.”
Trump said he has expanded the America rules of engagement in the war on terror, which he believes will allow the military to take greater action to fight terrorists.
In addition, he touted his administration’s strategy in the war in Afghanistan, which he said would be based on conditions on the ground instead of timelines imposed from Washington.
“From now on, our security interests will dictate the length and scope of military operations. Not arbitrary benchmarks and timetables set up by politicians. I have also totally changed the rules of engagement in our fight against the Taliban and other terrorist groups,” he said.
“In Syria and Iraq, we have made big gains toward lasting defeat of ISIS. In fact, our country has achieved more against ISIS in the last eight months than it has in many, many years combined.”
Trump added the U.S. wants to see the civil war in Syria de-escalated and Bashar Assad give up his chemical weapons.
“We seek the de-escalation of the Syrian conflict and a political solution that honors the will of the Syrian people,” he said. “The actions of the criminal regime of Bashar al-Assad, including the use of chemical weapons against his own citizens, even innocent children, shocked the conscience of every decent person. No society can be safe if banned chemical weapons are allowed to spread. That is why the United States carried out a missile strike on the air base that launched the attack.”
