The U.S. victory against the Islamic State has gone practically unnoticed by the foreign policy establishment and the media, writes the New York Times‘ Ross Douthat: “If you had told me in late 2016 that almost a year into the Trump era the caliphate would be all-but-beaten without something far worse happening in the Middle East, I would have been surprised and gratified. So very provisionally, credit belongs where it’s due — to our soldiers and diplomats, yes, but to our president as well.”
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