Geneva: On a trip through seven nations and three different parts of the world, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson devoted himself to his president’s overarching foreign policy mission: Defeating terrorism.His trip concluded today with limited success.
In Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, Tillerson addressed long-term plans for stabilizing an Afghan government besieged by the Taliban insurgency.
In Switzerland, he dove back into the years-long drive to end Syria’s civil war, the origins of an IS threat that has spread worldwide.
In understatement, Tillerson noted today that many countries he visited over the last week “are still embroiled in significant conflict.
