Also returning:
Body counts
How many years the conflict has been going on.
Cindy Sheehan.
Accusations against US forces of complicity in war crimes.
Don’t forget all those Afghan “wedding parties” too. Under Bush anytimen more than 3 Muzzies were blown to bits it was always a “wedding”. Oh, and bombing during Ramadan. Never was an issue under JugEars McFoodstamp.
This time,fight to win,and take no prisoners.
And DO NOT allow any member of the media outside Kabul. Not f***ing ONE!
The media is a far greater enemy than the Taliban.
Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution states clearly that Congress – not the President and not keyboard warriors – declares war. And Congress hasn’t declared war.
History is clear that no one wins in Afghanistan.
History is also clear that the United States hasn’t won any conflict since 1945.
Recent history suggests that China – and thus its puppet state North Korea – uses the technology this nation sold them under the Clintons to render our warships helpless.
Stop cheering and start thinking.
Ha Ha! You are exactly correct!
So Turmp is going to drain the swamp by dumping more bodies into it. Where is Congress to pull the plug on this nonsense already? It says a lot about Lance’s priorities that his reaction to another idiotic Trump policy is to grunt out some partisan whining.
“3,024 Americans died from 1975 through 2015 due to foreign-born terrorism. That number includes the 9/11 terrorist attacks (2,983 people) and averages nearly 74 Americans per year.” http://www.businessinsider.com/death-risk-statistics-terrorism-disease-accidents-2017-1
Contrast that with 90 unarmed Americans killed by police in 2015.
An unarmed American is more likely to be killed by his own government than by foreign-born terrorists.
Afghanistan is prime Islamic wasteland, unconquerable without centuries of total colonization, something no modern nation has the reason, stomach, treasury or political will to do. If Great Britain, the last great imperial power couldn’t tame her, no one can. When the last American soldier eventually leaves, the results of their entire tenure will be undetectable (paraphrasing Mark Steyn). Jihad will continue unabated with or without Afghanistan used for training grounds. Trump is becoming Bush.
Paging “Code Pink”, paging “Code Pink”!
Not a good idea. Eventually the US will pull out of Afghanistan, and win or lose, when they eventually do, the Taliban et al will be right back in power.
They should have just gone in to retaliate for 911, punish those responsible and left. “Nation building” in a backward, medieval society is a waste of effort, and exercise in futility.
America helped win WW1&2, and a fat lot of good it did if Europe then commits suicide by ‘the Pill’ et al.
It’s good that America’s Armed forces are getting facetime in foreign countries.
Since they became Protector of the Japanese Emperor, and with him South Korea, the entire region has prospered, so to speak.
Except North Korea – whose citizens are slaves in a hermit kingdom. .
China likely doesn’t want a united Korea at their doorstep.
The USA has gotten itself into an Imperial outpost here, keeping the barbarians at bay, a la Rome. Difficult to extricate oneself, best just to do it as economically as possible.
And fight to win for a change. No holds barred.
What Don Morris said.
What exactly is a “win” in Afghanistan supposed to look like? How will we know that Trump has won?
Who will sign the surrender? How will they make it stick? What about all those terrorist training bases in Pakistan?
Isn’t bin Laden dead? Isn’t Mullah Omar dead? Wasn’t Afghanistan invaded because Mullah Omar wouldn’t hand Osama bin Laden over to the U.S.? No Afghans were involved in 9/11.
What exactly is it that Trump thinks he can win in Afghanistan?
I think Trump should just pull out if he can’t clearly explain what is supposed to be “won” there.
Sending troops over to Afghanistan can’t make Americans safe at home.
For some reason … I don’t believe the Trump Administration will allow the Terrorist Org. Code Pink into the Senate Gallery … like George Bush did. And I am certain that Rex Tillerson won’t stand still when some PROG witch shoves her “bloody hands” in his face … like Condoleza Rice did.
Rizwan: “Business Insider”. Har!! Hey why not link to “The Daily Kos” or “Salon” or “Newsweek”?? What’s next? Quoting the CBC as an unbiased source?
Do your own research, show your work, or forget it as these sites have zero credibility.
Oz & Dirtman, did you actually listen to the speech or are you just ranting?
UnMe: Could you just be a little more consistent, I mean as in predictable in your comments? I just never know when your going to veer away from the oh so smug “it’s way worse than we thought” comments.
Yup, I listened to the speech. It was hard. Trump is swollen with self importance.
The Taliban are mainly Pashtuns. They are the majority ethnic group in Afghanistan and also have large numbers in Pakistan.
Culture comes from the grass roots. It is Leftist hubris that stakes out the position that government can change culture.
You like Trump and want him to be re-elected? Surging troops to Afghanistan, losing American soldiers and pouring good American gold after bad is not the way to do it.
I’ve done my research.
Trump was elected to get America back on track economically. Wars are expensive undertakings. They wreck infrastructure and lives.
The Problem is Islam. Trump is not going to change that. He is not going to change Afghan culture such as it now exists.
What is the new Afghan culture going to be based on economically? Have you pondered that?
Did you know that the vast majority of Afghans don’t even know why foreign invaders, infidels, are in their country killing them?
They’ve never even heard of 9/11 16 years on.
I’ve seen videos of the U.S. Army and Marines training Afghan troops and police.
The Afghan Elders send their village idiots to join the Afghan Police and Afghan Army.
The Taliban gets the competent sons and let me tell you, NATO doesn’t have enough troops in the whole world to go toe-to-toe with them.
Not only that, the Muslim replacement rate for their crippled and killed sons is much higher than the West’s is.
Muslim sons that were born after the 2001 invasion are already joining Taliban ranks and same goes for al Qaeda.
I went on at length right here at SDA back when “W” Bush was still POTUS. It doesn’t matter if the RoE are changed/improved/loosened.
The technological edge will make no difference to the outcome. The Jihadis just have to hang on and bleed America white and they win.
Mere survival is counted as victory in their culture. Martyrdom is counted as a blessing.
The America people are war weary and struggling economically. The reason America/NATO invaded Afghanistan is over.
Bin Laden and Mullah Omar are dead. It was the Saudis they hijacked those planes that day.
The Dems took America into Vietnam. They hated Nixon but they still elected him because Nixon promised to get them out of Vietnam.
Vietnam was previously America’s longest war. Now it’s Afghanistan. Do you want Trump to be a one term President like Johnson was?
All Hillary has to do is run on getting the U.S. out of Afghanistan and it’s a done deal, she or another Dem will be in the WH.
America is war weary. Save it for the Russians, NorKs, and ChiComs.Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Judging by your comments, it’s hard to believe that you heard the speech.
Example: a)You say “It is Leftist hubris that stakes out the position that government can change culture.”
b) “He is not going to change Afghan culture such as it now exists.”
Trump said, 1) “I share the American people’s frustration. I also share their frustration over a foreign policy that has spent too much time, energy, money, and most importantly lives, trying to rebuild countries in our own image, instead of pursuing our security interests above all other considerations.”
2) “Ultimately, it is up to the people of Afghanistan to take ownership of their future, to govern their society, and to achieve an everlasting peace. We are a partner and a friend, but we will not dictate to the Afghan people how to live, or how to govern their own complex society. We are not nation-building again. We are killing terrorists.”
You said: “The Taliban are mainly Pashtuns. They are the majority ethnic group in Afghanistan and also have large numbers in Pakistan.”
Trump said: “The next pillar of our new strategy is to change the approach and how to deal with Pakistan. We can no longer be silent about Pakistan’s safe havens for terrorist organizations, the Taliban, and other groups that pose a threat to the region and beyond.”
I could go on but won’t. By the way, the longest lasting American war effort is Korea (since 1950).
The TEXT of Trump’s speech is here: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/21/trump-afghanistan-speech-text-241882
The deck chairs at all the fake news whore houses need rearranging.
“I could go on but won’t.”
Good. Then shut up and pay attention. The best face for what Trump is proposing to do is simple revenge. No percentage for the American Republic.
Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden are DEAD. There is literally no reason to continue to occupy and have American forces in Afghanistan.
Trump’s afraid that the Taliban will take over the government? ARE YOU STUPID?! The United States GOVERNMENT created the ISLAMIC Republic of Afghanistan where the was no ISLAMIC Republic before. The United States did the same making an ISLAMIC Republic in Iraq. Saddam Hussein’s government favoured the Sunni minority, but it was largely secular.
Do you have any IDEA at all what an Islamic Republic is? Do you not know that the only Islamic Republic which pre-existed the U.S. government creating one in Afghanistan and then Iraq …was the Islamic Republic of IRAN?
You don’t know Shiite from Shinola, Davie.!
What is America’s interest in Afghanistan? NOTHING. and NOTHING. and NOTHING. Keeping soldiers there and warring there serves the American people NOT, costs ALOT in blood and treasure, and is evil if it does those things.
Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden are DEAD. The U.S. LIED to the rest of the world and said they went into Afghanistan for Osama bin Laden.
WELL BIN LADEN IS DEAD DEAD DEAD so why is the U.S Army still there? Every heard the term ‘Mission Creep’, Davie?
What Trump is literally promising in his speech is Afghan Spring. Time to stop WARRING. Pull out and leave them to their Islamic devices. If Trump wants to take on all of Islam then I’m down for that. Mecca and Medina in KSA go first, not Kabul or Kandahar.
Afghanistan will have the Russians supporting the Taliban from the North. Pakistan will support the Taliban from the South. The People’s Republic of China will support the Taliban from the South East.
These adversaries Literally LIVE THERE. It’s their bailiwick. It’s in their theatre. Their logistical train is SHORT. Just like the NVA and the VC.
Large numbers of Pashtun’s are in the Pakistani Army and Pakistan’s IS. They speak Pashto and know the Taliban’s Pashtun culture.
Russia has at least 2 Chechen Spetsnaz Brigades. They are experienced in supporting and training their Muslim brother’s in Southern Lebanon where Russia dispatched them to rebuilt Hizb’Allah after the Israeli incursion into Southern Lebanon after the 2006 Israeli/Lebanese War.
But you and others like you ignore history(maybe you never knew shit anyways to ignore in the first place) and think it’s just OKAY for the mission to be to just kill people and destroy the infrastructure that all of NATO has been trying to build for the last 16+ years!?
And all the Taliban did was to Host Osama bin Laden who was a Mujahadeen and helped with American aid and training going back to POTUS Jimmy Carter to throw the Russians out of Afghanistan. Of course the Pastuns hosted bin Laden. It’s even part of the Pashtun Wali(do you even know what that is?), it was part of their cultural code to host, honor, and protect bin Laden. Omar even married one of his daughters to one of bin Laden’s sons. That may not mean much to you but in Pashtun and general Muslim culture it’s a big deal.
This is no mission fit for the American people or any civilized people with honor. To get revenge? The Taliban, the Pashtuns, are the MAJORITY ethnic culture in Afghanistan.
The Afghan people SUPPORT the Taliban, not the foreign Infidel invaders. The Taliban are the Home Team and you can’t defeat an insurgency if it is supported by the people. (Lesson #1 from Che Guevara’s book Guerrilla Warfare… the Guerrilla swims in the population as a fish swims in the Sea and depends upon their support for his very existence)
All the Taliban has to do to win is to take over the seats in the Afghan Legislature just like Hizb’Allah has done with the Lebanese Legislature. Afghanistan is an Islamic Republic. All legislated law must conform with Sharia. That’s what an Islamic Republic is. The name ‘Taliban’ means Scholars in Islamic Law. They could run the country in no time if they didn’t feel it their duty to repel Foreign Infidel Invaders.
AM I GETTING THROUGH???
The Afghan Government is an American puppet government which practices vote fraud and the Afghan people KNOW IT.
Stop bringing these goat herders to Western Civilization and the threat evaporates like the morning mist.
Our troops over there don’t make us safe. It’s TRAITOR governments bringing them HERE that is the threat to us.
The U.S government let the 9/11 Terrorist Skyjackers come HERE.
If I had been born in Afghanistan I too would join the Taliban and fight to repel the FOREIGN Invaders from my country. Get some perspective.
The people who take American gold and join the Afghan Police and Afghan Army are aiding the invaders and destruction of their own country and are traitors to their own people and culture.(or a 5th Column waiting to go BOOM!)
No wonder the Taliban are using suicide bombers to repel the invaders when the invaders are only there to destroy and not to build.
How do I know the U.S. is only there to destroy and not to build? Because President Trump said so in his speech. Stop idolizing Donald Trump and pay attention.
There is no upside in Trump’s policy on Afghanistan for the American Republic or for the Afghan people.
Also returning:
Body counts
How many years the conflict has been going on.
Cindy Sheehan.
Accusations against US forces of complicity in war crimes.
Don’t forget all those Afghan “wedding parties” too. Under Bush anytimen more than 3 Muzzies were blown to bits it was always a “wedding”. Oh, and bombing during Ramadan. Never was an issue under JugEars McFoodstamp.
This time,fight to win,and take no prisoners.
And DO NOT allow any member of the media outside Kabul. Not f***ing ONE!
The media is a far greater enemy than the Taliban.
Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution states clearly that Congress – not the President and not keyboard warriors – declares war. And Congress hasn’t declared war.
History is clear that no one wins in Afghanistan.
History is also clear that the United States hasn’t won any conflict since 1945.
Recent history suggests that China – and thus its puppet state North Korea – uses the technology this nation sold them under the Clintons to render our warships helpless.
Stop cheering and start thinking.
Ha Ha! You are exactly correct!
So Turmp is going to drain the swamp by dumping more bodies into it. Where is Congress to pull the plug on this nonsense already? It says a lot about Lance’s priorities that his reaction to another idiotic Trump policy is to grunt out some partisan whining.
“3,024 Americans died from 1975 through 2015 due to foreign-born terrorism. That number includes the 9/11 terrorist attacks (2,983 people) and averages nearly 74 Americans per year.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/death-risk-statistics-terrorism-disease-accidents-2017-1
Contrast that with 90 unarmed Americans killed by police in 2015.
An unarmed American is more likely to be killed by his own government than by foreign-born terrorists.
Afghanistan is prime Islamic wasteland, unconquerable without centuries of total colonization, something no modern nation has the reason, stomach, treasury or political will to do. If Great Britain, the last great imperial power couldn’t tame her, no one can. When the last American soldier eventually leaves, the results of their entire tenure will be undetectable (paraphrasing Mark Steyn). Jihad will continue unabated with or without Afghanistan used for training grounds. Trump is becoming Bush.
Paging “Code Pink”, paging “Code Pink”!
Not a good idea. Eventually the US will pull out of Afghanistan, and win or lose, when they eventually do, the Taliban et al will be right back in power.
They should have just gone in to retaliate for 911, punish those responsible and left. “Nation building” in a backward, medieval society is a waste of effort, and exercise in futility.
America helped win WW1&2, and a fat lot of good it did if Europe then commits suicide by ‘the Pill’ et al.
It’s good that America’s Armed forces are getting facetime in foreign countries.
Since they became Protector of the Japanese Emperor, and with him South Korea, the entire region has prospered, so to speak.
Except North Korea – whose citizens are slaves in a hermit kingdom. .
China likely doesn’t want a united Korea at their doorstep.
The USA has gotten itself into an Imperial outpost here, keeping the barbarians at bay, a la Rome. Difficult to extricate oneself, best just to do it as economically as possible.
And fight to win for a change. No holds barred.
What Don Morris said.
What exactly is a “win” in Afghanistan supposed to look like? How will we know that Trump has won?
Who will sign the surrender? How will they make it stick? What about all those terrorist training bases in Pakistan?
Isn’t bin Laden dead? Isn’t Mullah Omar dead? Wasn’t Afghanistan invaded because Mullah Omar wouldn’t hand Osama bin Laden over to the U.S.? No Afghans were involved in 9/11.
What exactly is it that Trump thinks he can win in Afghanistan?
I think Trump should just pull out if he can’t clearly explain what is supposed to be “won” there.
Sending troops over to Afghanistan can’t make Americans safe at home.
For some reason … I don’t believe the Trump Administration will allow the Terrorist Org. Code Pink into the Senate Gallery … like George Bush did. And I am certain that Rex Tillerson won’t stand still when some PROG witch shoves her “bloody hands” in his face … like Condoleza Rice did.
Rizwan: “Business Insider”. Har!! Hey why not link to “The Daily Kos” or “Salon” or “Newsweek”?? What’s next? Quoting the CBC as an unbiased source?
Do your own research, show your work, or forget it as these sites have zero credibility.
Oz & Dirtman, did you actually listen to the speech or are you just ranting?
UnMe: Could you just be a little more consistent, I mean as in predictable in your comments? I just never know when your going to veer away from the oh so smug “it’s way worse than we thought” comments.
Yup, I listened to the speech. It was hard. Trump is swollen with self importance.
The Taliban are mainly Pashtuns. They are the majority ethnic group in Afghanistan and also have large numbers in Pakistan.
Culture comes from the grass roots. It is Leftist hubris that stakes out the position that government can change culture.
You like Trump and want him to be re-elected? Surging troops to Afghanistan, losing American soldiers and pouring good American gold after bad is not the way to do it.
I’ve done my research.
Trump was elected to get America back on track economically. Wars are expensive undertakings. They wreck infrastructure and lives.
The Problem is Islam. Trump is not going to change that. He is not going to change Afghan culture such as it now exists.
What is the new Afghan culture going to be based on economically? Have you pondered that?
Did you know that the vast majority of Afghans don’t even know why foreign invaders, infidels, are in their country killing them?
They’ve never even heard of 9/11 16 years on.
I’ve seen videos of the U.S. Army and Marines training Afghan troops and police.
The Afghan Elders send their village idiots to join the Afghan Police and Afghan Army.
The Taliban gets the competent sons and let me tell you, NATO doesn’t have enough troops in the whole world to go toe-to-toe with them.
Not only that, the Muslim replacement rate for their crippled and killed sons is much higher than the West’s is.
Muslim sons that were born after the 2001 invasion are already joining Taliban ranks and same goes for al Qaeda.
I went on at length right here at SDA back when “W” Bush was still POTUS. It doesn’t matter if the RoE are changed/improved/loosened.
The technological edge will make no difference to the outcome. The Jihadis just have to hang on and bleed America white and they win.
Mere survival is counted as victory in their culture. Martyrdom is counted as a blessing.
The America people are war weary and struggling economically. The reason America/NATO invaded Afghanistan is over.
Bin Laden and Mullah Omar are dead. It was the Saudis they hijacked those planes that day.
The Dems took America into Vietnam. They hated Nixon but they still elected him because Nixon promised to get them out of Vietnam.
Vietnam was previously America’s longest war. Now it’s Afghanistan. Do you want Trump to be a one term President like Johnson was?
All Hillary has to do is run on getting the U.S. out of Afghanistan and it’s a done deal, she or another Dem will be in the WH.
America is war weary. Save it for the Russians, NorKs, and ChiComs.Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Judging by your comments, it’s hard to believe that you heard the speech.
Example: a)You say “It is Leftist hubris that stakes out the position that government can change culture.”
b) “He is not going to change Afghan culture such as it now exists.”
Trump said, 1) “I share the American people’s frustration. I also share their frustration over a foreign policy that has spent too much time, energy, money, and most importantly lives, trying to rebuild countries in our own image, instead of pursuing our security interests above all other considerations.”
2) “Ultimately, it is up to the people of Afghanistan to take ownership of their future, to govern their society, and to achieve an everlasting peace. We are a partner and a friend, but we will not dictate to the Afghan people how to live, or how to govern their own complex society. We are not nation-building again. We are killing terrorists.”
You said: “The Taliban are mainly Pashtuns. They are the majority ethnic group in Afghanistan and also have large numbers in Pakistan.”
Trump said: “The next pillar of our new strategy is to change the approach and how to deal with Pakistan. We can no longer be silent about Pakistan’s safe havens for terrorist organizations, the Taliban, and other groups that pose a threat to the region and beyond.”
I could go on but won’t. By the way, the longest lasting American war effort is Korea (since 1950).
The TEXT of Trump’s speech is here:
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/21/trump-afghanistan-speech-text-241882
The deck chairs at all the fake news whore houses need rearranging.
“I could go on but won’t.”
Good. Then shut up and pay attention. The best face for what Trump is proposing to do is simple revenge. No percentage for the American Republic.
Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden are DEAD. There is literally no reason to continue to occupy and have American forces in Afghanistan.
Trump’s afraid that the Taliban will take over the government? ARE YOU STUPID?! The United States GOVERNMENT created the ISLAMIC Republic of Afghanistan where the was no ISLAMIC Republic before. The United States did the same making an ISLAMIC Republic in Iraq. Saddam Hussein’s government favoured the Sunni minority, but it was largely secular.
Do you have any IDEA at all what an Islamic Republic is? Do you not know that the only Islamic Republic which pre-existed the U.S. government creating one in Afghanistan and then Iraq …was the Islamic Republic of IRAN?
You don’t know Shiite from Shinola, Davie.!
What is America’s interest in Afghanistan? NOTHING. and NOTHING. and NOTHING. Keeping soldiers there and warring there serves the American people NOT, costs ALOT in blood and treasure, and is evil if it does those things.
Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden are DEAD. The U.S. LIED to the rest of the world and said they went into Afghanistan for Osama bin Laden.
WELL BIN LADEN IS DEAD DEAD DEAD so why is the U.S Army still there? Every heard the term ‘Mission Creep’, Davie?
What Trump is literally promising in his speech is Afghan Spring. Time to stop WARRING. Pull out and leave them to their Islamic devices.
If Trump wants to take on all of Islam then I’m down for that. Mecca and Medina in KSA go first, not Kabul or Kandahar.
Afghanistan will have the Russians supporting the Taliban from the North. Pakistan will support the Taliban from the South. The People’s Republic of China will support the Taliban from the South East.
These adversaries Literally LIVE THERE. It’s their bailiwick. It’s in their theatre. Their logistical train is SHORT. Just like the NVA and the VC.
Large numbers of Pashtun’s are in the Pakistani Army and Pakistan’s IS. They speak Pashto and know the Taliban’s Pashtun culture.
Russia has at least 2 Chechen Spetsnaz Brigades. They are experienced in supporting and training their Muslim brother’s in Southern Lebanon where Russia dispatched them to rebuilt Hizb’Allah after the Israeli incursion into Southern Lebanon after the 2006 Israeli/Lebanese War.
But you and others like you ignore history(maybe you never knew shit anyways to ignore in the first place) and think it’s just OKAY for the mission to be to just kill people and destroy the infrastructure that all of NATO has been trying to build for the last 16+ years!?
And all the Taliban did was to Host Osama bin Laden who was a Mujahadeen and helped with American aid and training going back to POTUS Jimmy Carter to throw the Russians out of Afghanistan. Of course the Pastuns hosted bin Laden. It’s even part of the Pashtun Wali(do you even know what that is?), it was part of their cultural code to host, honor, and protect bin Laden. Omar even married one of his daughters to one of bin Laden’s sons. That may not mean much to you but in Pashtun and general Muslim culture it’s a big deal.
This is no mission fit for the American people or any civilized people with honor. To get revenge? The Taliban, the Pashtuns, are the MAJORITY ethnic culture in Afghanistan.
The Afghan people SUPPORT the Taliban, not the foreign Infidel invaders. The Taliban are the Home Team and you can’t defeat an insurgency if it is supported by the people. (Lesson #1 from Che Guevara’s book Guerrilla Warfare… the Guerrilla swims in the population as a fish swims in the Sea and depends upon their support for his very existence)
All the Taliban has to do to win is to take over the seats in the Afghan Legislature just like Hizb’Allah has done with the Lebanese Legislature. Afghanistan is an Islamic Republic. All legislated law must conform with Sharia. That’s what an Islamic Republic is. The name ‘Taliban’ means Scholars in Islamic Law. They could run the country in no time if they didn’t feel it their duty to repel Foreign Infidel Invaders.
AM I GETTING THROUGH???
The Afghan Government is an American puppet government which practices vote fraud and the Afghan people KNOW IT.
Stop bringing these goat herders to Western Civilization and the threat evaporates like the morning mist.
Our troops over there don’t make us safe. It’s TRAITOR governments bringing them HERE that is the threat to us.
The U.S government let the 9/11 Terrorist Skyjackers come HERE.
If I had been born in Afghanistan I too would join the Taliban and fight to repel the FOREIGN Invaders from my country. Get some perspective.
The people who take American gold and join the Afghan Police and Afghan Army are aiding the invaders and destruction of their own country and are traitors to their own people and culture.(or a 5th Column waiting to go BOOM!)
No wonder the Taliban are using suicide bombers to repel the invaders when the invaders are only there to destroy and not to build.
How do I know the U.S. is only there to destroy and not to build? Because President Trump said so in his speech. Stop idolizing Donald Trump and pay attention.
There is no upside in Trump’s policy on Afghanistan for the American Republic or for the Afghan people.