Donald Trump's raison d &# x27; etre has been to repeal and replace Barack Obama's presidency, so why did he choose to replicate what might have been the worst part of his legacy, namely Obama's infamous” red line” debacle in Syria( which signaled weakness and empowered Russia) and his withdrawal from Iraq( which led to the rise of ISIS )?

In case you've forgotten , not long ago, Trump was calling Obama literally the founder of ISIS. The literal part was, of course, absurd. But by failing to leave a residual force-out behind in Iraq, Obama expended the hard-fought gains made during the Iraq surge, allowing for the rise of the Islamic State.

But isn't that exactly what Trump has done in Syria? According to Kurdish forces-out on the ground, hundreds of ISIS family members and militants have already escaped.

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