Posted on 08/21/2017 3:53:13 PM PDT by jazusamo
President Trump has signed off on sending an additional 4,000 troops to Afghanistan, ahead of his address to the nation Monday night, Fox News has learned.
Trump is set to unveil his strategy for Afghanistan, becoming the third commander-in-chief to attempt to stabilize the war-torn country and forge a victory in what is now America’s longest war.
The speech is scheduled for 9 p.m. EDT Monday. The president will deliver the nationally televised address to troops stationed at the Army's Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, located next to Arlington National Cemetery.
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Follow the money. Works every time it’s tried. *SIGH*
I know. *HEART*
Yeah so what's a thousand more veterans in wheelchairs with no arms and no legs mean just as long as Congress votes in favor of the things the president wants...
Whatever strategy he chooses, McCain will criticise it.
16 years - that is almost a ghetto generation. Even the Crusades took a break every few years.
Stop killing Americans...good Americans. Bomb thew place into a smoldering cinder. Leave.
I would like you to concentrate on this: All the perps of radical terrorist acts end up dead and therefore unable to testify. All of them. What does that tell you?
A dead man tells no tales. And neither can one testify in a court of law.
That’s why they’re ALWAYS found dead.
This is not my first rodeo. :)
I think we learned that lesson in Vietnam: you can’t bomb people into submission.
Or Libya, Egypt, Syria, Ukraine, Sudan,...... So how do we unravel 28 years of presidencies either hell-bent on the global domination script or too lazy to stop it?
What I'd do is stay long enough to give each local government the opportunity to elect leaders without our interference. We certainly no longer have moral authority to be an example of respecting the results of elections and the peaceful transfer of power. Don't support any national government, financially or otherwise. Have another election with us helping the military with security, but no more picking winners. Then leave.
We were better off when we weren't blowing up Muslim countries. When they were stable, the Muslims stayed in their homelands.
Nope—feeding the Swamp only makes them greedy for more.
There is not one democrat’s life to protect that is worth the loss of a soldier in the ME. Bring them home.
Opium War 2. Heroin is needed to dull the masses and fill the prisons. Instead of Britain vs China, it’s globalists vs Americans.
It’s sad to see Trump throwing a bone to the neocons.
If there are no people left...they have “submitted”.
Sigh...another day another let down...more dead Americans for no damn good reason.
Precisely... What on Earth are we still doing there anyway? What is the mission? And if there is one let’s get it done and leave... this boggles the mind.
Well I said Trump had two choices, go big or go home. Looks like the generals convinced him to go small. What about the ROEs? Sad!
Send 4000 MOABs instead. Then come home.
Caption: “Guess which finger that is, Linda”.
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