How Trump Swallowed A Bitter Afghanistan Pill

ejohnson@politico.com (Eliana Johnson), Politico
Mon, 08/21/2017 - 10:35pm

In his first national security address, President Donald Trump broke with his “America First” campaign rhetoric and his past skepticism about the war in Afghanistan, bowing to the stay-the-course advice of the generals who occupy top posts in his administration.Trump’s Monday night speech laid out a new American strategy for the war in Afghanistan that he cast as a bold new approach – “I’m a problem-solver… in the end, we will win,” he said – but which critics cast as an extension of a failed approach.The plan – which will maintain an unspecified U.S.

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