Trump Outlines New Afghanistan War Strategy With Few Details
Adopting a phrase from Mr. Trump’s speech, he said he thought he heard a new Trump doctrine of "principled realism." The Afghanistan strategy was a consequential moment after a tumultuous
week for Mr. Trump, whose response to racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Va., raised questions about his ability to shoulder the responsibilities of a president.
Camp David described that But all my life, I’ve heard that decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk in the Oval Office.
WASHINGTON — President Trump put forward on Monday a long-awaited strategy for resolving the nearly 16-year-old conflict in Afghanistan, but he declined to specify either the number of troops
that would be committed, or the conditions by which he would judge the success of their mission there.
He promised that he would loosen restrictions on American soldiers to enable them to hunt down terrorists, which he labeled "thugs and criminals and predators, and — that’s right — losers." "The killers need to know they have nowhere to hide,
that no place is beyond the reach of American might and American arms," the president said.
In announcing his plan, Mr. Trump became the third consecutive American president to be confounded by
the conflict in Afghanistan, now the longest military operation in the history of the United States.
In a nationally televised prime-time speech to troops at Fort Myer, Va., Mr. Trump
said there would be no "blank check" for the American engagement in Afghanistan.
