US President Trump on Thursday ripped the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) for its tactics, calling militants ‘sneaky, dirty rats’.
“They’re sneaky, dirty rats. These are bad people. They blow people up in a shopping center, and they blow people up in a church,” Trump said here.
Expressing confidence that his plans will definitely defeat the terror group and eradicate radical Islamic terrorism ‘completely from the Earth’, he said, “(They) are sick and demented, and we’re going to win.”
Trump said that the ISIS is particularly dangerous because it shuns conventional methods of warfare such as military identification.
“We have evil that lurks around the corner without the uniforms,” he said. "The people we’re going against, they don’t wear uniforms.”
“When you’re fighting Germany and they had their uniforms and you’re fighting Japan and they had their uniforms and they had their flags on the plane and the whole thing — we are fighting sneaky rats right now,” Trump added, referencing World War II.
Trump's rhetoric about ISIS is nothing new and he made combating the group a central promise of his campaign, even saying at one point that he would ‘bomb the hell out of ISIS’.
The comments come a day before Trump’s first visit to Pentagon where he is expected to discuss ways with Defense Secretary James N Mattis to accelerate the fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.
