Article from Reason by Joe Setyon.
President Donald Trump is reportedly considering pulling U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, hard on the heels of yesterday’s announced draw-down in Syria. Washington was already in a tizzy about the abrupt manner of the Syria announcement, and seems to be greeting these early reports of Afghanistan in the same way. But ending these two drawn-out, expensive wars is the right thing to do. There’s only so much good money, men, and materiel you can throw after bad.
Officials throughout the Trump administration are bracing themselves for the President to make an announcement about the US presence in Afghanistan, similar to his declaration Wednesday that the US will withdraw the military from Syria, informed administration sources tell CNN.
The sources cautioned that President has not yet made a final decision, but officials are concerned and convinced that he might do so, and soon.
Read the entire article at Reason.
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Go with your gut feeling, I think you should have fired those bad actors when you knew you should have, back when.
President TRUMP Set to End Another War??
If this is true
then I’m excitingly impressed
because WE have terrorist on our US soil to be dealt
the same death blow as President TRUMP dealt
all terrorist abroad
this is the TRUMPing Truth!!!
Put those troops on our border!
President Trump is beginning to keep his campaign promises. The American people who elected him, Including the men and women who do all the fighting, don’t want unnecessary wars that cause suffering at home and increase the countrie’s debt. Mattis and his ilk are chicken hawks.
OMG. I just thought of a problem with the US leaving Afghanistan (after a mere 17 years). Where will the CIA get its heroin to sell in the US and provide secret money for it off the books ops? Anyone who doesn’t believe this can look it up. Do some research and find out how loathsome this slimy agency really is.
They’ll really be angry. But then, they’ll figure out a way around it, even if it means buying it from the Taliban. They’re shady like that.
It’s about time to pull the Americans out of a war that only weakens American Armed forces and takes brave American lives for weak governments. Let them resolve their own difficulties and overcome them with their own military! We only weaken our own defenses in these maters!