Ex-US Envoy Brett McGurk: ‘ISIS Is Not Defeated’
“ISIS is not defeated,” says @brett_mcgurk, President Trump’s former Special Envoy for the campaign to defeat ISIS.
“This mission is not over. I do not think there would be a single expert that would walk into the Oval Office and tell the President that this is over.” pic.twitter.com/6rLuYYzUvw
— Christiane Amanpour (@camanpour) January 21, 2019
Brett McGurk, the former US envoy to the global anti-ISIS coalition who recently resigned, has been speaking out recently sharing his concerns.
In a recent Washington Post op-ed, he criticized President Donald Trump for giving ISIS new life.
He appeared on Face the Nation on Sunday, and on Monday he spoke with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour and talked about POTUS’ decision to withdraw from Syria and his concerns about the fallout.
Amanpour asked McGurk if he ever met Trump. He said he interacted with other top White House officials but not directly with the President.
At one point Amanpour asked, “Is ISIS defeated? Can the President leave Syria knowing there will be no more threat from ISIS?”
“In early December, Secretary Mattis and I met with all the military contributors of our coalition, including many countries that had been attacked from ISIS out of Syria,” McGurk responded, “and the unanimous view is that ISIS is not defeated, this mission is not over. I do not think there would be a single expert that would walk in the Oval Office and tell the President that this is over. And that is why we always said the mission was the enduring defeat of ISIS.”
You can watch the interview above, via CNN.
McGurk made similar comments on Face the Nation on Sunday, and he said he left following the “total reversal” from Trump.
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