Mr. President, Bring Our Troops Home!
Level heads on the left and right agree (and even President Trump a few years ago), Mr. President, BRING OUR TROOPS HOME.
Saddest of all, unless we reverse course, babies conceived and born during this fruitless nation-building war will now be deployed to it by 2019.
Katy Gillen, left, and husband Marine Cpl. Jeffrey Gillen prepare to say goodbye at Camp Pendleton before deploying to Afghanistan in May of 2012.
We have wasted an enormous amount of blood and treasure in Afghanistan. Their government has zero appreciation. Let’s get out!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 21, 2013
Rand Paul: “16 years on, it’s past time to bring our troops home from Afghanistan” https://t.co/nCnv7rRmi1 pic.twitter.com/RMJHMQ42kc
— The Hill (@thehill) August 22, 2017
Who’s going to pay for it? What is our measure of success? We didn’t win with 100K troops. How will we win with 4,000 more? https://t.co/XHj9GpJzaZ
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) August 22, 2017
Obama’s 2009 speech announcing a 30,000 troop surge in Afghanistan contains so many of the same tired tropes Trump used tonight. pic.twitter.com/w3xvmeeaX7
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) August 22, 2017
If your view is that any declaration of a war’s end will precipitate victory for some undefined enemy, then the war can never end. https://t.co/CtzpA6mpfC
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) August 22, 2017
And it’s always a bad sign when warmongering neocons are happy.
.@LindseyGrahamSC on new strategy in Afghanistan: "I am very pleased with this plan and I am very proud of my president." pic.twitter.com/pf5klA5UC2
— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 22, 2017