The Washington Post is a sack of sh*t.
I don’t have a problem with that, as long as they are the right 10 million: terrorists and Taliban, but I repeat myself.
He also urged the president to avoid civilian casualties in Afghanistan, which reached record highs last year.
How many of those civilian casualties were caused by US Forces?
Less than the Taliban and the corrupt government, I’m sure.
Pure BS. Swatting mosquitoes is not a war. If it had been a real war, it would have been over in ten days. Trump was just stating the obvious.
Spray the ‘DRUG FARMS’ with potent stuff so they can’t raise a crop for a few years !
That’ll change their attitude...
I thought Prince Obama ended that war??????
Trump is speaking a truth. The only way to really control the place is a Carthaginian peace - literally destroy everything, remove or kill everyone, and start again.
Hindsight says once the Taliban were overthrown, the country should have been set on fire while on our way out. Instead we got more nation-building bullshit.
How to prevent Muslim terrorists from coming back? You can’t - so have a complete travel ban from nearly all Muslim countries into the USA.
He didn't say he would wipe Afghanistan off of the face of the Earth, Rana. Try and pay attention when the adults are speaking.
President Trump is wrong here. It would not take even 10 days.
The Constitution of Afganistan is explicitly Islamic. It was a mistake from the beginning to support any country so constituted. Islam is inherently evil.
Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday immediately asked for “clarification”
Be careful what you ask for Ashraf
We need to get out of there. Reduce our troops there to the bare minimum. Otherwise, it will never end, never stop draining billions out of the USA. There have to be other ways to create and maintain a ‘containment’ strategy, if that’s what this is.
Trump could end it in a week. Send over some C5s, pick up our stuff, and leave
I don’t care if their girls go to school. I don’t care if they all get slaughtered.
I would tell them if they are a haven for terrorists again—attacking the US, they will be carpet bombed from top to bottom and end to end.
Eff ‘em. Not our problem.
Someone really should inform this guy, and WaPo:
An attack on Afghanistan that would kill 10 million people would likely injure or make ill another 10 to 20 million, and moreover would render most of the country uninhabitable. There would not be a functional government left (granted that most of the current function seems to be corruption) or even likely possible, and barely any remnant of civilization. Most survivors would have to seek refuge in other countries, or die. A few goat herders or opium growers left struggling for survival in a few protected spots is NOT a country.
I dont give a rat’s ass about nuking that sh*thole either..
Trump is right, but what his detractors massively ignore is that Trump does not want to take the course that would lead to so many deaths, even if it did end the war. He is actually expressing the opposite of a “war monger” and expressing a restraint in spite of the powerful options he has, if he wanted to use everything possible - which he doesn’t.
He is saying two things:
1. I’m looking for a way to bring our men and women home from Afghanistan.
2. He had gone to war, he’d just be done with it and ROE would be to prosecute with extreme prejudice taking all the men and arms you want to complete the task..
Wrong