President Trump has declared victory over ISIS and said our troops are leaving. We won according to President Trump. What else can our troops do? This is the type of thing that is usually a punchline in a joke but it seems to be real. The Secretary of Defense and the US special presidential envoy for the defeat of ISIS resigned shortly after the announcement.

Are more resignations to follow our victory over ISIS ? Are our allies in this fight and more refuges to be slaughtered when our troops leave? We’ll just have to see what happens. Do we have a choice?

In a tweet President Trump declared :

We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency.

This is a nice Christmas present for several world leaders who are not considered friends of the US, except perhaps by our President (see A present for Vladimir ).