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President Donald J. Trump Is Taking A Historic Step To Achieve Peace In Afghanistan And Bring Our Troops Home
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| 02/29/20
| President Donald J Trump
Posted on 02/29/2020 1:33:21 PM PST by ransomnote
We are working to finally end America’s longest war and bring our troops back home.
President Donald J. Trump
PATHWAY TO PEACE IN AFGHANISTAN: President Donald J. Trump is following through on his promise and taking a decisive step to achieve negotiated peace in Afghanistan.
- President Trump is making good on his promise to bring our troops home from endless wars overseas by working toward peace in Afghanistan.
- Following a successful 7-day reduction in violence in Afghanistan, the United States is taking decisive steps toward a negotiated peace in Afghanistan.
- The United States and Afghan governments will be issuing a joint declaration reaffirming our strong partnership, including our continued support for Afghan security forces.
- An agreement has been reached with the Taliban that secures important commitments that are necessary to finally end the conflict in Afghanistan.
- While work remains, this progress provides a historic opportunity for peace.
TAKING A WATCHFUL AND RESPONSIBLE APPROACH: Our Nation is taking a responsible approach to ending this crisis and will be watching the Taliban closely to ensure compliance.
- Through our negotiations, America has secured strong commitments from the Taliban to permanently sever their ties to international terrorists.
- As the agreement is implemented, we will be watching closely and making determinations about compliance based on our own judgment and the safety of our personnel.
- We will begin reducing the number of troops, while sustaining a counterterrorism force to continue dismantling terrorist groups that seek to attack the United States.
- The pace of removal for American troops stationed in Afghanistan is conditions based and will depend on how well the Taliban comply with the commitments they have made.
KEEPING AMERICA SAFE: President Trump is committed to keeping Americans safe from the scourge of terrorism.
- President Trump is working each and every day to continue to keep America safe—including by rebuilding our military and combating terror around the globe.
- We will ensure that Afghan soil can never again be used to threaten American lives.
- We will always do what is necessary to ensure the safety and security of the American people.
BRINGING OUR TROOPS HOME: After 19 years, we are finally removing American troops from endless conflicts around the globe.
- President Trump promised to bring our troops home from overseas and is following through on that promise.
- In Afghanistan, our service members have done important work to root out terrorism and bring peace, but it is time to bring them home.
- Our Nation thanks the hundreds of thousands of American service members and our allies who have proudly served in Afghanistan, particularly the fallen and families of the fallen.
WORKING TOWARD LASTING PEACE: This is a historic opportunity to forge lasting peace in Afghanistan.
- Ultimately, it is the people of Afghanistan who must come together to achieve lasting peace for their future.
- For its part, the government of Afghanistan has committed to establishing an inclusive national team to participate in intra-Afghan negotiations.
- The Taliban have committed to enter negotiations with the Afghan government, its political leaders, and Afghan civil society, including women.
- Based on these announcements, we call on all sides to continue to reduce violence in Afghanistan as all sides come together to write a roadmap for their country’s future.
- In the meantime, the United States will continue working with allies and partners to monitor the situation and preserve the gains of the last 19 years.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; military; taliban; war
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To: ransomnote
MSM will credit 0bama for setting it up in the first place.
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posted on
02/29/2020 1:45:07 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: ransomnote
“Through our negotiations, America has secured strong commitments from the Taliban to permanently sever their ties to international terrorists.”
As a throw in we get the Brooklyn Bridge, too.
-— I don’t buy criticism from Bolton or the like either, though.
Trump made a great point that he had his chance.
We defeated the Taliban in one week.
Then we neglected to de-Taliban the country the same way we de-Nazified Germany and ended Japan’s emperor worship etc...
It all could have been finished 17 years ago or so.
Today is a sad day that marks a victory for the Taliban after they attacked us on our own soil on 911.
That the Taliban exist today bears witness to a US loss.
Bush and Obama admins had ample time and all the resources in the world to eradicate the Taliban, but chose not to.
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posted on
02/29/2020 1:58:17 PM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: ransomnote
The Pakistanis WILL continue fighting over there. They have been fighting with the other tribes over there since the beginning of time.
They Afghanis have been fighting since the beginning of time...
They all fight over land, water, past and current family feuds, you-name-it. The Hatfields and McCoys have nothing on them.
Nothing changes over there. It's mountainous, dry and nasty..worthless land. No petroleum, no water, no minerals, just dust and poverty.
To: ransomnote
Can’t we just nuke our enemies?
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posted on
02/29/2020 2:28:19 PM PST
by
max americana
(Fired ONE libtard at work at every election since 2008 because I enjoy them crying)
To: cloudmountain
Actually there’s a lot of mineral wealth in the mountains there. For example Afghanistan supplied the ancient world with Lapis Lazuli semiprecious gems from Sumerian times to Roman. Lots of other stuff too. Not saying we should stay just there is considerable mineral wealth there.
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posted on
02/29/2020 2:37:36 PM PST
by
Reily
To: cloudmountain
Actually there’s a lot of mineral wealth in the mountains there. For example Afghanistan supplied the ancient world with Lapis Lazuli semiprecious gems from Sumerian times to Roman. Lots of other stuff too. Not saying we should stay just there is considerable mineral wealth there.
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posted on
02/29/2020 2:41:08 PM PST
by
Reily
To: Reily
Actually theres a lot of mineral wealth in the mountains there. For example Afghanistan supplied the ancient world with Lapis Lazuli semiprecious gems from Sumerian times to Roman. Lots of other stuff too. Not saying we should stay just there is considerable mineral wealth there.If this were true enough to mine and make money the country wouldn't be so poor. They ARE poor and totally engaged in continual warfare. Go read some history of Afghanistan...the land of he afghanis...
They seemed to have been at war forever. That was one place that Americans COULD NOT travel to. Too dangerous.
To: ransomnote
Taliban-why was Trump trying to make it sound like the Taliban are not that bad. Have they reformed?
Just tell people the truth, and not coat the Taliban in honey & sprinkles, with “mmm,mmm good.”
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posted on
02/29/2020 3:29:14 PM PST
by
sockmonkey
(Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...
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posted on
02/29/2020 4:10:18 PM PST
by
bitt
(A government afraid of it's citizens - should be afraid.)
To: sockmonkey
So you want him to keep US mil there and keep fighting the Taliban? You think A’stan government should not take responsibility for their country? And that human beings cannot change for the better?
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posted on
02/29/2020 4:23:17 PM PST
by
little jeremiah
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
To: cloudmountain
It is true !
Both ancient history, modern history (UK colonial office surveys, what surveys the older Afghan governments could cobble together, Soviet surveys & recently (last 10 years) a USGS survey all confirm. Recent Chinese surveys (which I know the least about!) again confirm.
You have to have a stable society to take advantage of it.
If you can’t take advantage of it, it doesn’t matter if you have it.
Again not advocating we stay!
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posted on
02/29/2020 4:46:27 PM PST
by
Reily
To: ransomnote
It is not like a victory.
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posted on
02/29/2020 5:20:45 PM PST
by
depressed in 06
(60 in '20. Now, more than ever! (61, I didn't take into account Mittens.))
To: ransomnote
“You have the watch, I have the time.” Afghan saying.
To: ransomnote
Do not forget to salt the poppy fields!!!
To: ransomnote
Should have been home years ago.
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posted on
02/29/2020 5:41:57 PM PST
by
bgill
(Idiots. CDC site doesn't recommend wearing a mask to protect from COVID-19)
To: ransomnote
Afghanistan is all about the poppy fields and who get the drugs the cia or the tally.Or,who gets the UN/US billions which are spread all over the region with payoffs, graft and corruption so widespread no one wants to see the US pull out and stop leafing all that cash all over the region.
To: All
You can be sure potus knows what is going on. He’s just trying to put the best face on it as he should.But he knows it’s all about corruption from top to bottom and he wants nothing to do with it.Potus is tired of the cabal calling all the shots and bleeding the country dry year after year.
To: Reily
It is true ! Both ancient history, modern history (UK colonial office surveys, what surveys the older Afghan governments could cobble together, Soviet surveys & recently (last 10 years) a USGS survey all confirm. Recent Chinese surveys (which I know the least about!) again confirm.
You have to have a stable society to take advantage of it.
If you cant take advantage of it, it doesnt matter if you have it.
Again not advocating we stay!Mexico is a stable country and they have MUCH in the way of raw materials. Yet, the people generally are poor. The relatively few wealthy families own the bank$, land, military and police. Their leaders, of course, come from those families.
There are exceptions...but not many.
They are an Afghanistan of North, Central and South America.
It makes me EXTREMELY grateful to live here. HOW BLESSED we are!
To: cloudmountain
Mexico stable? I guess so compared to Afghanistan otherwise not so much.
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posted on
03/01/2020 5:09:56 AM PST
by
Reily
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