Halperin: Trump’s Afghanistan Policy More Continuity than Change

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HALPERIN: "He said he’d be a candidate of change, including very explicitly on this issue. There's clearly a lot more continuity here than change. And yet, while a lot of the American people may not like it, you look at the reaction from Congress, including from some Democrats, but from a lot of establishment Republicans, they applaud this. And people who are looking at sort of longer arc of this President's process of being president on tough issues, this was clearly one of the more deliberating processed the President has been through, he listened to a lot of voices and considered a lot of options. But I’ll say to conclude, this is a bitter thing for a lot of people who wanted change because this policy is a lot more continuity than it is change."