Obama's Iraq blunder nurtured ISIS; Trump's Syria policy might prevent ISIS 2.0

The Islamic State caliphate is crumbling, but President Trump is right to keep some military forces in Syria.

Speaking on Thursday, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis explained that the U.S. would retain forces there to help peace efforts and keep a lid on any threats that emerge in the post-ISIS era. As Mattis put it, “We’re trying to move everything out of Astana over to Geneva, so we can come up with the next steps. Those next steps will have to do with how do you set up a political reconciliation. That plan would involve an election of some kind, under international observers.”