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Trump's Afghanistan Policy Speech: 9 PM ET
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It's happening in a few minutes.
Expected from news reports.
Expected from news reports.
NYT wrote:The decision on troops is just one component of a military and political plan for the region that Mr. Trump and his aides have been discussing for months, and it is politically important for the president to differentiate his approach from the Obama-era policies he sharply criticized.
Administration officials have been developing ways to try to pressure Pakistan to shut down the sanctuaries there for the Taliban, a goal Republican and Democrat administrations have pursued for years with little success.
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Trump administration officials have also worked to lock in troop commitments from NATO and other Western nations, an important consideration for a president who has demanded that allies shoulder part of the burden.
Trump administration officials say they know they will need to reassure the American public that American military involvement in the nearly 16-year-old conflict will not be open-ended and will help combat international terrorism.
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One way to address that concern, administration officials have said in recent weeks, might be to stipulate that the Afghans would need to satisfy certain conditions, like fighting corruption or improving governance, to continue to receive American economic and military support.
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Oh good, he's going to jerk off about the military now.
Didn't even have that reaction to W. Just him.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
He is the worst speaker I've ever heard
Except trans service members, I guess.
Money?
What the fuck is he doing with his hand.
It's like he's trying to imitate Clinton, but completely fucking it up, like everything else.
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And thank you for "studying"
He's never seen this speech before.
I could have written a better speech
I just want someone to tell him to get to the fucking strategy.
That's what it sounds like when someone is concentrating on reading.
My god. He is fucking learning. Or at least is delivering a speech that make it look like he is capable of learning.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
I'd like to see him name three of the military officials he met.
(he might have, I refuse to watch/listen to that monster shit words out of his mouth)
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