[Peace] The US war in Afghanistan

[C G Estabrook]

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"...a meeting, chaired by Vice President Pence, was held at the beginning of August, and three principals were tasked to come up with ‘creative' options for Trump to consider: [National Security Adviser] McMaster, CIA chief Mike Pompeo, and [Attorney General] Sessions.

"McMaster initially came up with a plan for inserting 50,000 more troops into Afghanistan, but scaled it back after realizing Trump would never go for it. Both Bannon and Pompeo want to lighten the US footprint, with the former coming up with a problematic scheme to ‘privatize' the military campaign, and the latter wanting to basically farm it out to the CIA and Special Operations units. As for Sessions, he’s the most radical of the anti-interventionists...

"Sessions, stalwart of the America First camp, has long been ‘the biggest skeptic in the room’ when the subject of a continued presence in Afghanistan arises in meetings of Trump’s war cabinet ... ‘The A.G. asks the same question: Is this what we were elected to do? And the answer to the question is no.’”

—CGE

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