WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he wanted to get out of Syria and bring U.S. troops back home — only moments after his top advisers said publicly that the fight against ISIS was not finished.
“I want to get back, I want to rebuild our nation,” Trump said, reiterating comments about withdrawal that he made last week. “It’s time. We were very successful against ISIS; we’ll be successful against anybody militarily, but sometimes it’s time to come back home. And we’re thinking about that very seriously.”
The president, speaking at a joint press conference at the White House with the leaders of the Baltic states, did not give a timeline for the U.S. departure but said a decision would be made soon. The U.S. has around 2,000 forces on the ground fighting the terrorist group.
Just minutes earlier, the Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, Brett McGurk, stressed that the job was not finished.
“We are in Syria to fight ISIS. That is our mission,” McGurk said, standing alongside U.S. Army…
