Stop saying the ISIS caliphate is ‘100 percent defeated’

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The Trump administration has significantly weakened the Islamic State. But Trump and his officials should stop saying that the ISIS caliphate is “100 percent defeated.”

It is stupid and strategically dangerous to say so.

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