[Parley Baer]

“Were we listening to the same speech? President Trump spoke out against nation building”

I don’t know what speech some of these posters heard. Being we are not into nation building would also include Syria. We are only there to kill the terrorist.

[grania]

I'm wondering if we switch our mission to killing terrorists instead of telling people how to lead their lives we get the support we need from the population.

In that speech, several times President Trump made it very clear that he was abandoning regime change and nation building. Was that message as much for the populations of Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq as it was for us?