President Trump’s quiet Middle East triumph

The Caliphate is finished. ISIS and ISIS-inspired fighters may continue to harass Western troops and attempt to terrorize Western civilians, but the theocratic regime that once stretched across the Fertile Crescent is no more.
And while President Trump did not destroy the Islamic State singlehandedly, the eerie quiet that has descended in the wake of his careful triumph marks a strange confusion over the sea change in Mideast politics that Trump has already wrought in just a few brief years.
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