President Trump on Afghanistan Strategy (C-SPAN)
August 22, 2017
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as posted by the channelExcerpts from President Trump’s remark on Afghanistan:
"After many meetings, over many months, we held our final meeting last Friday at Camp David, with my Cabinet and Generals, to complete our strategy. I arrived at three fundamental conclusions about America’s core interests in Afghanistan.
FIRST: Our nation must seek an honorable and enduring outcome worthy of the tremendous sacrifices that have been made…
SECOND: The consequences of a rapid exit are both predictable and unacceptable… A hasty withdrawal would create a vacuum that terrorists – including ISIS and Al Qaeda – would instantly fill, just as happened before September Eleventh…
THIRD AND FINALLY, I concluded that the security threats we face in Afghanistan and the broader region are immense."
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