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To: snarkytart

It was an idiotic country to go into, and if anything our mucking around there, along with having cost thousands of lives and tens of thousands of to become disabled and trillions of dollars in direct and indirect costs, makes Pakistan less stable, not more so.


15 posted on 08/22/2017 5:48:56 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

I agree but this is what Trump ran on as a candidate as part of his foreign policy platform.


17 posted on 08/22/2017 5:51:55 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: 9YearLurker

It had always been a realistic possibility of a terrorist takeover of Pakistani nukes. And the people who would do this could come from Afghanistan

The nuclear reality of SWA ( Pakistan, India and soon Iran) gives us permanent national security interests in the region- however we choose to secure them. Trumps approach deserves study , not knee jerk whining about “ broken promises”

Furthermore the Donald Trump of 2013 and even 2016 did not have the additional issue of ISIS moving into Afghanistan. Nor of the Afghan government and the taliban both coming under attack by them.

Obamas announced withdrawal of the US from Afghanistan set the stage for a disastrous series of responses by really bad guys. That was an unbelievably BAD move. Trump says he inherited a bad hand.
D. Uh yeah


21 posted on 08/22/2017 6:48:33 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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