Trump Sending More Troops To Afghanistan
May 14, 2017
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as posted by the channelBefore the election, Trump called the Afghanistan war a mess. Now he’s sending more troops to make a bigger mess. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"The Trump administration is looking to change America’s strategy in Afghanistan from waging peace to waging war.
In an effort to turn around the faltering Afghan war, Trump’s top foreign policy and defense advisers, led by National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, are recommending that the president send around 3,000 to 5,000 US troops into the country, reports the Washington Post.
They would primarily serve as trainers to Afghan forces who are currently fighting the Taliban, the hardline Islamist group that America and NATO set out to dislodge more than 15 years ago.
But the country’s top intelligence official isn’t sure it’s such a good idea. "The intelligence community assesses that the political and security situation in Afghanistan will almost certainly deteriorate through 2018, even with a modest increase in (the) military assistance by the United States and its partners," Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, toldthe Senate Intelligence Committee today.”*
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