{"id":74131,"date":"2017-08-22T08:31:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T12:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74131"},"modified":"2017-08-22T08:42:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T12:42:02","slug":"the-trump-doctrine-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74131","title":{"rendered":"The Trump Doctrine in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it last night, here&#8217;s the video of the President&#8217;s 25 minute speech at Fort Myers, Virginia in which he expressed his plan for finishing the war in Afghanistan;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iUezhOdGUPE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d prefer, you can read the speech here at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2017\/08\/21\/remarks-president-trump-strategy-afghanistan-and-south-asia\">White House.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It can be summed up in this quote from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2017\/08\/22\/taliban-spokesman-not-impressed-by-trumps-old-unclear-afghanistan-speech.html\">Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFrom now on, victory will have a clear definition: attacking our enemies, obliterating ISIS, crushing Al Qaeda, preventing the Taliban from taking over Afghanistan, and stopping mass terror attacks against America&#8230;Conditions on the ground, not arbitrary timetables, will guide our strategy from now on,\u201d he said, vowing, \u201cAmerica\u2019s enemies will never know our plans.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox says that last week the Taliban helpfully sent a letter to the President warning against sending more troops, that more troops will only delay their eventual victory. Apparently, Trump ignored the enemies&#8217; advice and he signed off on the Pentagon&#8217;s plan to send 4,000 more troops to the fray.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the Taliban&#8217;s main spokesman, Nancy Pelosi slept through the speech;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said, &#8220;Tonight, the President said he knew what he was getting into and had a plan to go forward. Clearly, he did not. The President\u2019s announcement is low on details but raises serious questions.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, if he intends to win, if he intends to turn Taliban members into smoking holes in the ground, that&#8217;s head and shoulders above anything I&#8217;ve heard in the past eight years. The President said he won&#8217;t repeat the mistakes of Iraq, and that&#8217;s better than any policy Obama expressed &#8211; the Obama Doctrine was &#8220;Withdrawal at any cost&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/08\/21\/politics\/democrats-trump-afghan-strategy\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>, Democrats clearly haven&#8217;t learned from their mistakes;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democrats argued Trump was proposing an open-ended commitment with no exit strategy or ceiling on US troops there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The same old drumbeat, the same old tired shit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it last night, here&#8217;s the video of the President&#8217;s 25 minute speech &hellip; <a title=\"The Trump Doctrine in Afghanistan\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74131\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Trump Doctrine in Afghanistan<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}