Angry Trump Grilled His Generals About Troop Increase, Then Gave In
By MARK LANDLER and MAGGIE HABERMAN AUG. 21, 2017https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/world/asia/trump-afghanistan.html?comments#permid=23825103
We should all be worried that there are now a significant number of Generals in lead positions of our (civilian?) government. One of the few sensible campaign promises Trump made was to remove us from the insane involvement in the war in Afghanistan (and Iraq).
Our Generals have a disastrous track record with their recommendation in Iraq and Afghanistan, yet Americans, very unfortunately and very dangerously, have the notion that "patriotism" requires supporting military leaders suggestions. ALL the predictions by "the Generals" in these wars have been wrong. The notion that another 4500 soldiers (or whatever the "secret number turns out to be) can accomplish what 100,000 soldiers could not is pure stupidity. The notion that Afghanistan is a terrorist training ground which directly endangers America's homeland is absolute nonsense - none of the terrorist attacks in recent years have had anything to do with Afghanistan - even 9/11, although planned by Bin Laden, who was holed up in Afghanistan, was almost exclusively carried out by Saudis, radicalized by the Saudi brand of Islam - yet Saudi Arabia is still one of our "trusted allies".
The whole effort in Afghanistan was originally justified by our then "Clown in Chief" with the notion that we had to "get bin Laden", which would somehow solve all the terrorism problems. Well, "we got bin Laden", and absolutely nothing has changed.
Get out of Afghanistan NOW!
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