Is America Negotiating with the Islamic State?
For local forces on the frontline, negotiated population transfers are better than launching an assault against an enemy that is well dug-in and determined to die. On January 28, 2017, months after then-candidate Donald Trump vowed the Islamic State off the face of the earth and bomb the group into smithereens, the businessman-turned-president issued a presidential memorandum ordering Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, in consultation with other national security cabinet members, to submit to the White House a comprehensive war plan within ...
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