President Donald Trump declared Wednesday that the U.S. mission in Syria is focused solely on protecting oil fields, which appears to contradict the Pentagon's contention that fighting ISIS is the priority. "We're keeping the oil, we have the oil, the oil is secure, we left troops behind
President Donald Trump declared Wednesday that the U.S. mission in Syria is focused solely on protecting oil fields, which appears to contradict the Pentagon's contention that fighting ISIS is the priority.
Last Thursday, the vice director of the Pentagon's Joint Staff corrected a reporter who said the mission there was to protect the oil. Trump this fall ordered the withdrawal of almost all of the 1,000 U.S. troops in Syria after learning that Erdoğan planned to send troops into the country's northeast to clear the area of YPG Kurds, which Turkey considers terrorists. Trump later switched course and decided to send in U.S. troops to protect oil fields in eastern Syria.
"There are still ISIS fighters in the region and unless pressure is maintained, unless attention is maintained on that group, then there's a very real possibility that conditions could be set for a reemergence of ISIS," Milley said."So we’re committed to do that. The footprint will be small, but the objective will remain the same, the enduring defeat of ISIS."
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