From Mycroft CTH:
‘They lie to you’: Trump previously held private meetings with Navy SEALs to candidly discuss Afghanistan war
By: David Choi, Business Insider, Dec 23, 2019:
In 2017, President Donald Trump began taking meetings with enlisted US service members who deployed to Afghanistan.
“I want to sit down with some enlisted guys that have been there,” Trump told advisers, according to the national security journalist Peter Bergen’s latest book, “Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos.”
“I don’t want any generals in here. I don’t want any officers,” Trump added. “I just want enlisted guys.”
Among the first Afghanistan veterans said to have talked to Trump were US Navy SEALs who spoke critically of the war.
“It’s unwinnable. NATO’s a joke. Nobody knows what they’re doing,” the SEALs reportedly told Trump. “We don’t fight to win. The morale is terrible. It’s totally corrupt.”
Months after taking office in 2017 and hoping to get a better understanding of America’s longest war, President Donald Trump began taking meetings with enlisted US service members who deployed to Afghanistan.
“I want to sit down with some enlisted guys that have been there,” Trump told advisers, according to the national security journalist Peter Bergen’s latest book, “Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos.
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