Trump’s Afghan Strategy: Forever War and Occupation
NOVANEWS
By Stephen Lendman
Global Research
Trump’s Monday address on Afghanistan didn’t surprise. What a difference an election makes!
In 2013, he tweeted:
“We should have a speedy withdrawal” from Afghanistan. “Why should we keep wasting our money – rebuild the US!”
In 2014, he denounced Obama for “keeping our soldiers in Afghanistan for at least another year. He is losing two wars simultaneously.”
In 2015, he called US Middle East wars a “mess…a terrible mistake. We made a terrible mistake getting involved there in the first place.”
“We had real brilliant thinkers that didn’t know what the hell they were doing. And it’s a mess. It’s a mess. And at this point, you probably have to (stay) because that thing will collapse about two seconds after they leave. Just as I said th...