Shaheen: Syria Pullout Will Be ‘One of the Worst Foreign Policy Blunders of this Century’

‘ISIS has not been completely defeated’

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SHAHEEN: "I think this will be considered one of the worst foreign policy blunders of this century, certainly of this century to date. ISIS has not been completely defeated. We know there is a stronghold where there is still active fighting going on. We know there are thousands of ISIS fighters who have melted back into villages, who if we withdraw and the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces who have been our great partners in this fight are — don’t have the support that they have the opportunity to come back, either as ISIS, again, or another configuration of the terrorist organization, that’s what happened in Iraq. We don’t want history to repeat itself here. And we don’t want to give Iran and Russia and Assad, we don’t want to seed influence in Syria to them, which we will do if we totally pull out."

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