Juan Williams: Trump’s Turning Away from His Own Base on Afghanistan

‘I don’t think even his strongest supporters feel it’s efficient if you’re talking about doing the job’

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The key point is about politics. I think the president surrounded himself with generals and listening to generals. He got rid of Steve Bannon who was oppose to further buildup in Afghanistan unless you put private forces in. The president is now clearly turning from his own base to that extent. He’s a guy in January of 2013 said we’re wasting money. Why don’t we use that money to rebuild the usa not Afghanistan. Now he says as president, he’s going against his instincts which is to withdraw but doesn’t lay out for us the military objective and it’s obvious to every American we’re there to win what that victory would mean. At what point do we say there’s a stable government in kabul that can be trusted. At what point do we say India and Pakistan is cooperating. Instead it strikes me as open-ended. I’m all for winning. I just want to know exactly what the commitment involves. I think he by putting 4,000 additional troops on the ground that’s what the reports are in the neighborhood of 4,000. I don’t think even his strongest supporters feel it’s efficient if you’re talking about doing the job. 

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