Trump Monday Prime Time Address: Afghan Strategy

[acptulsa]

Who is this orange neocon on my television?

 

[r3volution 3.0]

Now he's citing the "premature withdrawal" from Iraq as a reason to not make the same "mistake" in Afghanistan...

...it was that "premature withdrawal" which generated ISIS, doncha know (not removing Saddam or arming jihadis in Syria, of course)

 

[Origanalist]

Who is this orange neocon on my television?

I don't know, but I'm done. I have heard this song before.

 

[Zippyjuan]

(he led in by saying the US should not be involved in state building).

1) US must seek "honorable and durable outcome". US deserves a victory.
2) Consequences of a quick exit predictable and unacceptable. Would leave "terrorist vacuum." (so would removing Assad in Syria- my note)
3) Security threats the US faces in Afghanistan are significant.

War not ending anytime soon. Then he starts talking like George W. Bush. US should be world's policeman.

Policy change based on conditions on the field, not time. Won't say how many troops. "America's enemies must not know our plans. They must not know when we will attack, but attack we will!"

"We are not nation building- we are killing terrorists!"

 

[acptulsa]

If 'determined to kill women and children' is the definition of terrorist, then 'stripping terrorists of their territory' is going to cost him a lot of hotels and golf courses.

 

[r3volution 3.0]

"A core pillar of our new strategy is a shift away from a time based approach" (paraphrase)

i.e. we'll be there forever

 

[Raginfridus]

Ladies and gentlemen, the Teleprompter of the United States of America.

lol I can't rep anyone yet, can someone help me out?

1) There is no victory for an endless war...
2) No, 9/11 was NOT planned in Afghanistan, and the Taliban did NOT aid Al-Qaeda!
3) So gtfo, dummy!

 

[acptulsa]

Total war in the Graveyard of Empires so Russia can't have pipelines and the CIA can control the poppies.

Get ready to be further impoverished.

Oh, great. Pakistan now. Did they close their Rothschild Central Bank (TM)?

 

[r3volution 3.0]

Talking about working with Pakistan to eliminate the safe-haven...

...Gee whiz, why didn't anyone think of that before?

[insert video montage of Bush/Obama saying the same thing 50 times]

 

[liveandletlive]

so much winning, we're gonna get tired of winning.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Trump to India: "We are from the US government, and we are here to help."

 

[Zippyjuan]

Develop stronger military relation with India. Demand Pakistan does more.

More "tools of engagement" to the military. "No place is out of reach of American military".

Wants more money and troops from allies.

Wants Afghanistan to offer US money to help pay for US forces from their resources? Will help them rebuild so they can "pay us back".

 

[liveandletlive]

what's Bannon got to say about this, lets hope he hits Donald hard

 

[bunklocoempire]

Listening to Fox today, it sounds like the plan is to fail with "4,000" for a while, and then let any Trump challenger come in with an Erik Prince solution.

New strategy sounds a whole lot like the old strategy.

 

[liveandletlive]

if he wants more money for our military, start with our BUMBLING Navy. can't seem to sail in open waters safely. otherwise withdraw all troops from afghanistan.

 

[acptulsa]

Afghans will secure and govern their own nation. We will develop commercial interests to defray our costs.

In other words, we'll set up Afghani stooges to let us raid their natural resources, and we'll help them tax the shit out of their goat herders.

 

[Origanalist]

 

[r3volution 3.0]

Now he's bragging about increased DoD funding...

 

[Brian4Liberty]

and suddenly...
Gen. Kelly waved his magic wand... and.....
there were...
no
more
leaks.

(usually we'd have the full text and cliff notes by now.)

Neocons and leftists don't leak when it's their agenda.

 

[Swordsmyth]

"I have a plan" "We will come home WHEN WE HAVE WON"