The WSJ (and the Murdochs) should understand that Trump runs USA foreign policy...not them.
Has the WSJ been right about anything?
“The WSJ (and the Murdochs) should understand that Trump runs USA foreign policy...not them.”
I am no fan of the Murdochs but the deal they got buying Dow Jones (owner of Wall Street Journal and Barrons) left the editorial board of the opinion section/page under the control of the previous owners. It is the one section of the paper that is more the old Wall Street Journal than any other section.
That said, I neither agree nor disagree with the the WSJ oped page editors on the subject of Afghanistan. I am a mugwump - a fence sitter - mug on one side wump on the other, as I can see good arguments both ways.
“Impulsive” is not a word I would have chosen, as they could have defended their position differently by using “premature” as that term is totally about conditions and not time frames. That said, I think any president at this time is in a damned if you do, damned if you don’t position on Afghanistan.
Trump alludes to the real problem - why we have been left with the current status - when he says “except at the beginning, we never really fought to win”.
We should never go to war if we do not, or cannot, or are unwilling (popular sentiment) to do it WWII style - total war until unconditional surrender. Less than that we leave conditions that plague global peace and security afterwards.