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Trump: Afghanistan is the 'Harvard University of terrorism'
CNN ^ | Betsy Klein,

Posted on 08/20/2019 4:41:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Speaking at the White House, Trump lamented that US involvement in the country for 18 years, which he described as more of a "police force," is "ridiculous," and repeated a claim that the US "could win that war in a week if we wanted to" but that he does not "want to kill 10 million people, 10 million Afghans ... because that's what would have to happen and I'm not looking to do that."

Trump said the US is "bringing some of our troops back but we have to have a presence."

The area "does seem to be the Harvard University of terrorism," Trump said.

"We've been a peacekeeper there, in a way, for 19 years and at a certain point you have to say that's long enough," he said, describing visiting wounded veterans at Walter Reed military hospital who have served in Afghanistan.

He said the US is "negotiating -- we'll see what happens," but that the Taliban could stop unrest in the region "very easily."

Trump met with top national security advisers last week at his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, to review a US-Taliban peace plan that could end America's longest-running war.

The State Department announced on Tuesday that its Taliban negotiator Zalmay Khalilzad was traveling to Doha and Afghanistan to continue discussions with the Taliban and Afghan government, respectively, on the peace process.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; harvard; trainingcamps; trumpgwot
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Fitting, since Harvard is the Afghanistan of "higher education"
1 posted on 08/20/2019 4:41:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Exactly. The politicos coming out of Harvard are terrorizing America.


2 posted on 08/20/2019 4:46:13 PM PDT by Track9
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To: BenLurkin

We don’t need a presence.


3 posted on 08/20/2019 4:47:21 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Track9

LOL, Trump trolls Hahhvaard.


4 posted on 08/20/2019 4:49:10 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: BenLurkin

Oh boy is that going to trigger some faux brainiacs.


5 posted on 08/20/2019 4:50:00 PM PDT by bramps (It's the Islam stupid!)
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To: BenLurkin

The land of skulls and bones, so yeah....


6 posted on 08/20/2019 4:51:07 PM PDT by TADSLOS (You know why you can enjoy a day at the Zoo? Because walls work.)
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To: BenLurkin

Hey I have an idea, maybe we shouldn’t let them in the country. And absolutely minimize America’s contact with that country.

Pretty obvious that what we’ve been doing for 18 years isn’t working


7 posted on 08/20/2019 4:52:18 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: BenLurkin

We are not in Afghanistan because of 9/11. We are not in Afghanistan to fight them over there so we don’t fight them here. We are not there in Afghanistan the spread freedom. We are not there to prevent terrorism.

We are there for one, and one reason only... money for the establishment,


8 posted on 08/20/2019 4:54:21 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: MrEdd

Exactly, we should have killed the 10m or whatever it would take to send the message “don’t F with the US” right after 9/11, then left entirely with no nation building or aid.


9 posted on 08/20/2019 4:55:20 PM PDT by reardensteel
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To: BenLurkin
Speaking at the White House, Trump lamented that US involvement in the country for 18 years, which he described as more of a "police force," is "ridiculous," and repeated a claim that the US "could win that war in a week if we wanted to" but that he does not "want to kill 10 million people, 10 million Afghans ... because that's what would have to happen and I'm not looking to do that."

I do believe he is right in that the only solution is to roll from one end of the country - if one can call it a country - to the other and kill everything living thing on the way.

However, eschewing that, we must make sure that is does not become a base for another bin Laden and Al Qaeda.

10 posted on 08/20/2019 5:02:40 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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We are there for one, and one reason only... money for the establishment...

Which establishment? And who benefits?

11 posted on 08/20/2019 5:04:47 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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Complete US pullout from Afghanistan.

The natives can kill each other.

If there is a satanic opposite to allah, that entity can sort the souls.

12 posted on 08/20/2019 5:05:55 PM PDT by chief lee runamok (expect nothing)
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He’s right, you know.

Get out, or make the rubble bounce.


13 posted on 08/20/2019 5:19:23 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: BenLurkin

What, a bunch of spoiled rich kids turned into Marxist harpies?


14 posted on 08/20/2019 5:25:31 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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To: Rummyfan

The one that runs America. The ones that talks like Bush and Cheney sit on the boards of, the bankers, Lockheed, Etc.

The war benefits absolutely nobody except the elite moneyed interests in America who regarded as the ultimate Cash Cow. Several trillion so far


15 posted on 08/20/2019 5:40:18 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: BenLurkin

Whew, that’s a relief. Graduating a bunch of effete elitist terrorists is very little worrisome. Now, if he had named Michigan Technological University, then I’d have been worried


16 posted on 08/20/2019 5:40:26 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Calm down and enjoy the ride, great things are happening for our country)
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To: MrEdd

Proximity to Iran?


17 posted on 08/20/2019 5:41:42 PM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: reardensteel
In 2016 the Afghanistan population was estimated at 34.7 million, up from 20 million in 2000. From Wikipedia: “The current population growth rate is 2.37%, the highest in the world outside of Africa. This population is expected to reach 82 million by 2050 if current population trends continue.”

NOBODY wants to deal with this issue. In 2007 I was in a meeting in Kabul where the French representative asked what was being done to curb population growth. At the break I overheard the President’s advisor saying he had already asked Karzai about that, but Karzai wouldn’t touch it because of the religious leaders.

So 10 million wouldn’t even take the population back to where it was when the US got involved.

18 posted on 08/20/2019 6:09:38 PM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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“Trump: Afghanistan is the ‘Harvard University of terrorism’

Except Afghanistan doesn’t turn out such wretched scum for graduates as Harvard.


19 posted on 08/20/2019 6:36:21 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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The area "does seem to be the Harvard University of terrorism," Trump said.


Yes, I live in fear of Harvard graduates, too, and especially those with law degrees.
20 posted on 08/20/2019 8:26:48 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Please, oh pretty please let Crazy Uncle Joe Biden be the nominee.)
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