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Stop saying the ISIS caliphate is ‘100 percent defeated’

By Tom Rogan
Published March 22, 2019 5:31pm ET
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Stop saying the ISIS caliphate is ‘100 percent defeated’
President Donald Trump holds up a chart documenting ISIS land loss in Iraq and Syria as delivers remarks at the Lima Army Tank Plant, Wednesday, March 20, 2019, in Lima, Ohio. | (Evan Vucci/AP)

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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