[be-baw]

Sounds like Trump had to be convinced that this time more troops In Afghanistan will have different, more concrete result. With Mattis at the helm, that might be true. We'll see.

[be-baw]

I’m slipping today. The full name of the author is Jonathan Swam/

[OttawaFreeper]

It might have been a nice thing to have fought to win in that country and helped to grow a healthy government and society there (just like what could have been done in South Vietnam by the end of the 1960s). Instead, the effort there probably just became another source of cash for the UniParty of Criminal Government and their corporate friends.

[Navy Patriot]

Trump to announce Afghanistan plan Monday in TV address

He's sending all American DemoRats there plus John McCain to be truly bipartisan?

[plain talk]

Lots of details in this report. Either it is bogus or there are still major leaks happening.

[Vermont Lt]

ISIS is not coming back. Al Queda’s funding from Saudi Arabia will dry up.

They do not want to be like us. How come no one gets that? Why do we keep trying to make them be like us?

[ilovesarah2012]

I hope he’s withdrawing.

[Jeff Chandler]

What's the over/under on the time until his plan is leaked?

[nightmarewhileawake]

what if all of us left our TV on FOX or OAN all day and all night? Wouldn’t that change the MSNBC numbers. Can’t you leave the cable box on and manually turn off your tv screen? And, and, and stay off Facebook. And, and don’t use google when searching use bing.com ??

[varon]

Trump's top national security advisers all agree the only way they'll win their missions in Afghanistan is to modestly increase troop levels, keep training the Afghan military, and keep a strong CIA and special forces presence to run aggressive counter-terrorism operations....ad infinitum......setting up a generational income source to a select group of our overlords....

[SamAdams76]

First prime time address of his presidency (was wondering what took so long). Then a prime time speech in Arizona on Tuesday night.

We have a lot of Trump in the week ahead! I'll be in Atlanta, I hope they have this on the hotel TV set or the bar downstairs. Otherwise, I'll have to stream it over crappy hotel broadband.

[TTFlyer]

Here’s hoping Trump doesn’t go with the Neo-Cons.

[mrsmith]

The geopolitical situation is that China wants access to Afghanistan’s resources and to put it’s “One Road” through there.
The US also wants access to the resources, and for China to build it’s One Road.
Militarily I guess that means keeping on until China gets it’s head straight and negotiates.

I’d like to see us withdraw, except for intelligence apparatus. let China, Pakistan, Iran and Russia suffer the terrorists they’ve created there. But that wouldn’t set well with India.

[Forgotten Amendments]

Bottom line: Trump has been reluctantly open to the generals' opinion and I'm told he doesn't want to be the president who loses the country to the terrorists.

"Lose" the country? Hey - it's not our colony.

The USSR was smarter than we are. We never ever learn.

[9YearLurker]

Bad news, as it almost surely means he’s capitulating to McMaster and sending thousands more of our war fighters into that hopeless hellhole.

[Truth29]

If the leaks are right (4,000 more troops), this sucks. This sounds like a prescription of endless low level war and more American dead. What happened to Go Big or Go Home, or something completely different like a Blackwater Army?

[Mariner]

America’s best interests are served by complete, near-term withdraw.

Anything else is a decision against the American people.

[Cobra64]

Trump should allow Mattis to make the announcement.

[ichabod1]

AND SO IT BEGINSSSSSSS!!!!!

[TennTuxedo]

The Democrats are bringing a motion to censure President Trump to the floor Monday evening. Reports there are enough votes in the Senate.

[Blood of Tyrants]

We either need to pull out or go barbarian on them.