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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnd right on time: U.S. poised to expand military effort against Taliban in Afghanistan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-poised-to-expand-military-effort-against-taliban-in-afghanistan/2017/05/08/356c4930-33fa-11e7-b412-62beef8121f7_story.html?tid=a_breakingnews&utm_term=.b44f4d80db9cShowed up in my "Breaking News" feed:
resident Trumps most senior military and foreign policy advisers have proposed a major shift in strategy in Afghanistan that would effectively put the United States back on a war footing with the Taliban.
The new plan, which still must be approved by the president, calls for expanding the U.S. military role as part of a broader effort to push an increasingly confident and resurgent Taliban back to the negotiating table, U.S. officials said.
The plan comes at the end of a sweeping policy review built around the presidents desire to reverse worsening security in Afghanistan and start winning again, said one U.S. official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
The new strategy, which has the backing of top Cabinet officials, would authorize the Pentagon, not the White House, to set troop numbers in Afghanistan and give the military far broader authority to use airstrikes to target Taliban militants. It would also lift Obama-era restrictions that limited the mobility of U.S. military advisers on the battlefield.
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And right on time: U.S. poised to expand military effort against Taliban in Afghanistan (Original Post)
Kber
May 2017
OP
One of the big deals with trump voters was staying out of wars. They aren't going to like this shit.
The_Casual_Observer
May 2017
#3
SHRED
(28,136 posts)1. He'll get people killed for distraction purposes
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)2. Perfect for Trump
He can have a war and if anything goes wrong, he can blame it on foreign policy advisors. And if everything goes well, he can take all the credit.
Kber
(5,043 posts)5. He may not be smart, but he can be clever.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)3. One of the big deals with trump voters was staying out of wars. They aren't going to like this shit.
Kber
(5,043 posts)4. If they were logically motivated.
They wanted to stay out of foreign wars because Clinton's rap was as a more hawkish interventionalist.