[grania]

Were we listening to the same speech? President Trump spoke out against nation building. He's not imposing a form of government on countries that aren't like us. He sharply criticized Pakistan for its role in enabling terrorists. He's ended Obama's micromanaging of the war. As he promised throughout the campaign, he didn't announce troop levels or dates, which only helps the enemy. He's focusing on going after terrorists. He was quite critical of Obama's handling of the war.

What more do you want?

[9YearLurker]

How about having him stop killing and maiming our sons and daughters for an unwinnable war—like he promised?

How about not continuing the failed and costly W and Barry strategies?

Barry wasn’t for “nation building” either. And is smacking Pakistan in public what we really want? Okay, so he’s not announcing troop levels and dates. Is that really going to change anything, since that’s more or less what W did for 8 years, without success.

Oh, and not announcing troop levels is putting the neocon fox McMaster in charge of the chicken coop.

[octex]

That was my take on Trump’s speech, too! I especially liked that he said we were no longer into nation building (for democracies, like Bush and Obama tried and failed to do).

[VanDeKoik]

“What more do you want? “

To complain.

[servantboy777]

I'm thinking we are in Afghanistan to keep an eye on Iran/Pakistan. Knock off a few terrorist while we are at it. There is a deeper strategy here folks.

American intelligence would use the opportunity to set up electronic surveillance both on the Iranian/Paki borders.

Think about it for a moment...are we really there to hunt down a bunch of dirt poor cave dwellers? For 16+ years?

[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.