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The US Secretary of Defense has said that the American military forces and its coalition allies need to stay in Iraq, even after the terrorist group ISIS has been defeated. Ashton Carter said terrorist groups were headed towards a lasting defeat but the US-led coalition, which has purportedly been striking Islamic State positions in Iraq since 2014, had to stay and keep training local security forces to ensure the group does not rise again Press TV reports: “But there will still be much more to do after that to make sure that, once defeated, ISIL stays defeated,” the Pentagon chief said.

Just days after ISIS claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack at Ohio State University, perpetrated by their "soldier" Abdul Razak Ali Artan, student snowflakes across the campus remain cowering in their safe spaces of denial. As Rebel Media's Faith Goldy found, students were unable or unwilling to call the attack "terrorism" with one young man calling it a "misunderstanding."

Presented in stunned silence...

Angry democrats are lashing out at anyone and anything they think contributed to Hillary's loss while vehemently igoring the simple fact that Hillary, and her many scandals, were the unilateral reason for their crushing defeat.  Be that as it may, it is far easier to blame some combination of Bernie Sanders, Putin, James Comey, "Fake News", Julian Assange, White Supremacists, The Electoral College, Jill Stein...and the list goes on and on.

Of course, as we recently noted, Obama has decided to focus his blame on Fox News and other "fake news" outlets.

Via Stratfor,

Following Trump's phone call on Friday evening with the Taiwan president, which led to scathing response by the US press and diplomatic corps, both of which were shocked to see Trump threaten the "One China" status quo by taking foreign policy matters into his own hands (the same media and diplomats who were just as shocked to see Trump win the presidential election) , on Sunday morning Trump got some words of encouragement from none other than Vladimir Putin, who in an interview with Russian NTV TV, said that Trump is "a clever man" and will quickly adapt to his new responsibilities and ne