ISIS Will Resurge as Trump Walks Away From Syria, Mattis Warns
- Former defense secretary sees ‘disarray’ from president’s move
- Mattis says Obama learned this lesson the ‘hard way’ in Iraq
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Former U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis, who left the job last year when Donald Trump suddenly withdrew most U.S. forces from Syria, said Islamic State isn’t snuffed out, as the president thinks.
“We may want a war over; we may even declare it over,” Mattis said in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” to be broadcast on Sunday. “You can pull your troops out -- as President Obama learned the hard way, out of Iraq -- but the ‘enemy gets the vote,’ we say in the military.”