Trump Embraces Afghanistan Ideas That Failed Obama, Bush
- Longest U.S. war set to extend as Trump boosts troop levels
- Goal is ‘killing terrorists,’ not nation-building, Trump says
President Trump delivers his policy on Afghanistan. He speaks from the Fort Myer Army base in Virginia. (Source: Bloomberg)
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President Donald Trump’s new Afghanistan strategy -- more troops, pressure on Pakistan and diplomatic outreach to the Taliban -- relies on tactics his predecessors tried without success to get out of America’s longest-running war.