United States President, Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States’ troops would withdraw from Syria “very soon” as he lamented that America has wasted $7 trillion in wars in West Asia.
At the same time, he said the US was using all its resources to defeat Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and drive them out of the captured territory.
“We’re knocking the hell out of ISIS. We’ll be coming out of Syria, like, very soon. Let the other people take [care] of it now,” Mr. Trump said in Ohio where he had gone to deliver a speech on infrastructure.
“Very soon we’re coming out. We’re going to have 100 per cent of the caliphate, as they call it — sometimes referred to as “land” — taking it all back quickly, quickly. But were going to be coming out of there real soon. Going to get back to our country, where we belong, where we want to be,” he said.
Trump, in his remarks, lamented that the US has wasted $7 trillion in wars in West Asia.
“We spent USD 7 trillion in the Middle East. We’d build a school, they’d blow it up. We’d build it again, they’d blow it up. We’d build it again — hasn’t been blown up yet, but it will be. But, if we want a school in Ohio to fix the windows, you can’t get the money. If you want a school in Pennsylvania or Iowa to get federal money, you can’t get the money,” he said.
