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Trump Says U.S.‘Losing’ Afghan War in Tense Meeting With Generals
NBC News ^ | August 2, 2017 | CAROL E. LEE and COURTNEY KUBE

Posted on 08/02/2017 4:02:39 PM PDT by be-baw

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has become increasingly frustrated with his advisers tasked with crafting a new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and recently suggested firing the war's top military commander during a tense meeting at the White House, according to senior administration officials.

During the July 19 meeting, Trump repeatedly suggested that Defense Secretary James Mattis and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford replace Gen. John Nicholson, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, because he is not winning the war, the officials said. Trump has not met Nicholson, and the Pentagon has been considering extending his time in Afghanistan.

Over nearly two hours in the situation room, Trump complained about NATO allies, inquired about the United States getting a piece of Afghan’s mineral wealth and repeatedly said the top U.S. general there should be fired.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanwar; comment70; denazification; trumpafghanwar
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1 posted on 08/02/2017 4:02:39 PM PDT by be-baw
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Since Alexander the Great, no country can win a war in Afghanistan.


2 posted on 08/02/2017 4:03:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: be-baw

Who leaked this?


3 posted on 08/02/2017 4:06:26 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: be-baw

Trump tells the truth on this but the msm will declare it’s a lie.

Why are we still there? Why are we funding them? What’s shocking and awing is the entire ME hasn’t been turned into a parking lot.


4 posted on 08/02/2017 4:06:36 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: be-baw

To win it, we would have to give Pakistan back to India and outlaw Muslims. Otherwise, we should just come on home and let it rot.


5 posted on 08/02/2017 4:09:02 PM PDT by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: Eddie01

“Who leaked this?

“according to senior administration officials”


6 posted on 08/02/2017 4:09:14 PM PDT by be-baw (still seeking...)
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To: be-baw
How many countries have suffered the vain belief that Afghanistan could be tamed over the centuries??? So far as I can determine..., that region (and beyond) has merely been a swamp of warring tribes since it was populated...
7 posted on 08/02/2017 4:17:12 PM PDT by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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To: be-baw

Why would any General want that command? My son has done three tours there and he thinks it is hopeless.


8 posted on 08/02/2017 4:17:50 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Eddie01
Who leaked this?/

Exactly. There couldn't have been too many people in this meeting & most of them generals. So it shouldn't be too hard to figure out the leaker.

9 posted on 08/02/2017 4:18:50 PM PDT by gubamyster
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“Since Alexander the Great, no country can win a war in Afghanistan.”

In 2001 we won the war in a matter of days.

But then bad policy followed. There was no follow-up to de-Talban the entire country or to occupy as was done in Japan or Germany.

Wasted 14 years.


10 posted on 08/02/2017 4:20:59 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Oldexpat

Stop dicking around with the “Hearts and Minds” mentality might be a step in the right direction.


11 posted on 08/02/2017 4:21:52 PM PDT by j.argese (/s tags: If you have a mind unnecessary. If you're a cretin it really doesn't matter, does it?)
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To: nickcarraway

I think that had we not armed and trained the Mujahideen the Soviets could have won. The Soviets would have just killed half the population or more.


12 posted on 08/02/2017 4:21:56 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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Trump's national security team has been trying for months to come up with a new strategy he can approve.

I seriously doubt anyone is suggesting a new stategy. New tactics, maybe. But if the goal is to prop up a national government, it's the same strategy that is doomed to failure.

13 posted on 08/02/2017 4:23:45 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism wiithout Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: be-baw

What’s the mission?


14 posted on 08/02/2017 4:23:48 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (rightwingcrazy)
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To: be-baw

who leaked this? Maybe it was Trump.

It would seem that Afghanistan might be semi-winnable with new rules of engagement that allow the military to no longer worry about collateral damage. Even then it is hard to tell foe from worser foe.


15 posted on 08/02/2017 4:23:56 PM PDT by plain talk
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I would like to say that Afghanistan is not worth spit. I don’t give a darn about those bastards but I am furious that we are in their protecting Chinese owned mines!!! China hauls $1 trillion in minerals and we DO THE PROTECTION? how dumb can we get? If we “win” we get nothing. I say leave yesterday. I encourage President Trump to know when to fold em. Pick your battles but this aint one of them!!


16 posted on 08/02/2017 4:24:17 PM PDT by raiderboy
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Trump is correct

Time to fire McMaster. He is a loser


17 posted on 08/02/2017 4:25:50 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: be-baw

Bet on McKiser


18 posted on 08/02/2017 4:26:29 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: be-baw

I am no military expert, but it seems to me if you haven’t won a war after 16 years, you probably ought to give up and cut your losses.


19 posted on 08/02/2017 4:29:43 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Oldexpat

All the real generals were forced out of the military for refusal to go along with the GLBT agenda.


20 posted on 08/02/2017 4:29:45 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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