Posted on 08/20/2017 2:59:51 PM PDT by springwater13
President Trump has decided on a strategy for Afghanistan that also takes a broad approach toward tackling competing interests in South Asia, CBS News' Margaret Brennan reports.
The White House released a statement on Sunday saying that Mr. Trump will address the nation's troops and the American people on Monday evening from Fort Myer in Arlington, Virginia, "to provide an update on the path forward for America's engagement in Afghanistan and South Asia."
Officials expect Mr. Trump to announce a strategy that meets the requests of commanders in the field, allows for the deployment of around 4,000 more U.S. troops, and aggressively pushes Pakistan to stop acting as a safe haven for terrorists.
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If President Trump wants to really go rogue, he should order an immediate burning of all the poppy fields in Afghanistan.
Good post..very well said!
Good points
Time to bring back the draft with a 2 yr enlistment...just to get the snowflakes to STFU!
“...just to get the snowflakes to STFU!”
... or chicken out and run off to Canada.
Good alternative
Trump didn’t have a foreign policy platform - at least not a coherent one.
He promised to quickly defeat ISIS while also getting us out of foreign wars. We were going to win and also not fight.
Everyone heard what they wanted to hear.
And here we are.
Airlift all the gang members currently in our prisons to Afghanistan. Drop them off in Taliban controlled areas with arms and some provisions and then leave after telling them they will be in our prayers.
Thank you.
Nothing here about a change of strategy. 4,000 or 50,000, if the goal is still to impose a central govenment on people who don’t want one, the results will be the same.
I am not an expert in geopolitics, but I know that the Soviet Union spent a long time there and finally left--after only about half of the time we have been there.
I think this may be a tough sell for the President. I think people are fed up with losing their sons and daughters as, nearly, cannon fodder, although they have done a lot of good things. But can these people change?
So much precious American blood has been spilled.
Let's get working on those soldier robots!
I hope there is some specific plan; he did so well with that initial attack in Syria; I'm sure he has one, but won't talk about it. That's why this likely not be very popular.
Please don't take questions afterwards, Mr. President. That's what got you into trouble last week, I think (wasn't it an infrastructure announcement that was supposed to be the main point?).
Oh well, now the MSM will have something else to attack him on... :(
Now that's an idea? They think medievally, let them fight that way.
Plus that would eliminate the thread that these savages will steal American arms from dead or wounded soldiers.
If President Trump wants to really go rogue, he should order an immediate burning of all the poppy fields in Afghanistan.
Burning and perhaps an application of Roundup. Or some way to make the ground unusable to replant.;)
That would kill two birds with one stone--hit Afghanistan hard and make a dent in the drug problem in the U.S.
Nice try. That was 4 years ago sweetie. And what? Nothing has changed in Afghanistan in 4 years? Please....go turn Cnn back on and take your meds...
did you ever think, maybe he already did?
If we had a Draft...no exemptions, if you’re unfit for combat you serve in some other way...and a dedicated War Tax...again no exemptions...we’d be out of there in 6 months. Of course, the tax dollars would stop flowing to the Military Industrial Complex, so we can’t have that.
McMaster needs to go. OUT with that damn spot! He was instrumental in getting rid of Bannon.
Wiiiithout Bannon the Trump presidency is done, he is a one term president who will have 3 more years of lame duck.
Pull the troops and add more unmanned LRS-Bs.
I just don’t see how the craphole known as Afghanistan is in our vital national security interest. Get out yesterday.
reason enough to dump trump if this is his big plan....controlled by the military industrial complex and towel head loving McMaster....nothing changes some old BS
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