What happened to “bomb the shit out of them”, from the guy who knew more about ISIS [and I suppose the Taliban as well] than the generals?
He alone can fix it.
ETA: there must be a pp tweet from like 2013 that castigates Obama for something like this idea.
close enough
We’ve been there 17 years. It’s the longest running war in the history of our country. It’s time to declare victory and get the hell out of there. Shit, Russia learned it’s lesson in only 8 years.
If you want to bomb Afghanistan back to the Stone Age, you’d have to spend a lot of time reconstructing the country just to get it to the Stone Age. Afghanistan is a mountainous country that is just a black hole. Time to get out.
Hmm…to paraphrase someone who thinks that being President is exactly like being a professional celebrity, it looks to me as if The Trump Administration is weak on Afghanistan and on the very Radical Islamic sub group that protected and incubated Al Qaida.
Welp, among all of trump’s bigly winning lately, maybe he will cave to people who taught Alexander the Great how to bsrgain. I mean trump is the consumate deal maker, right? This will be easy for the stable genius.
