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Pres. Trump Pushes Advisers to Get US Troops Out of Afghanistan, Citing Coronavirus |
2020-04-28 |
[NBC] President Donald Trump has pushed his military and national security advisers in recent days to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan amid concerns about a major coronavirus outbreak in the war-torn country, according to two current and one former senior U.S. officials. Trump complains almost daily that U.S. troops are still in Afghanistan and are now vulnerable to the pandemic, the officials said. His renewed push to withdraw all of them has been spurred by the convergence of his concern that coronavirus poses a force protection issue for thousands of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and his impatience with the halting progress of his peace deal with the Taliban, the officials said. |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#8 Come home |
Posted by: Lex 2020-04-28 19:49 |
#7 /\ Hooah! |
Posted by: Besoeker 2020-04-28 18:35 |
#6 Lincoln fired a lot of generals. Too many egos involved. Like Vietnam, they can't face the fact that the pols don't want to pay the political capital to do what it takes to win. Eliminate the enemy's base of operation. In the case of Vietnam it was the North. In the case of Afghanistan it is Pakistan. Pull out. New uniforms all around. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-04-28 17:21 |
#5 If that's what it takes, just do it |
Posted by: Penguin_of_the_Desert 2020-04-28 14:49 |
#4 He could just give the order — he is commander in chief, after all. It makes me wonder what those anonymous leakers are not reported as saying. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2020-04-28 13:34 |
#3 @#1 & #2 MY FEELINGS EXACTLY! |
Posted by: Clem 2020-04-28 12:24 |
#2 Coronavirus, hell. Just bring the boys home. |
Posted by: Abu Uluque 2020-04-28 12:21 |
#1 Bring our boys home. |
Posted by: bman 2020-04-28 11:34 |