ISIS isn't terrorizing the west at near the rate before Trump  Wow this is revisionist history and given Trump's actions over the past week, waaaaay premature. It's revisionist because Trump did nothing to change the strategy against ISIS which was in place way before he took office, the strategy was to work with a multinational coalition and use local ground forces to not only take the battle to ISIS, but to hold the ground, so they were actually just accomplishing something and not just chasing ISIS back and forth.  In Iraq, it was the Iraqi army with Shiite militias fighting ISIS and in Syria it was the SDF who were mainly Kurds, the folks Trump just abandoned. By 2016 the strategy was absolutely clear push ISIS back to their strongholds, Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq.  And to prevent ISIS from calling for reinforcements from either city, the strategy was to fight both of these battles at the same time.  And that's exactly what happened.  The Battle of Mosul started in Oct 2016 and went for 9 months.  The Raqqa campaign started in Nov 2016 and went for nearly a year. Trump not only did not change the strategy he didn't change the people either.  Trump kept Brett McGurk on the presidential envoy to coordinate this stategy.  He had been on he job since 2015.  and countless child sex traffickers have been shut down According to the government's own figures, arrests have gone down slightly under Trump.