Afghan Plan News Today

A little more than an hour from now the president will announce his strategy for afghanistan, but already the presidents just ousted chief strategist, steve bannon, is attacking the presidents plan through his website, breitbart. the lead articles on the site right now happen to be america first? with steve bannon out, globalists push for more war abroad. and mike allen, trumps afghan plan will have the u.s. not winning but not losing. out front now chris buskirk who knows bannon, spoke to him o...

But donald trump kept sending them back to the drawing board asking what will be different this time? how is this not groundhogg day. and what they explained to him, this is the anti-obama plan. obama put a deadline on it. were not going to put a deadline on it. well make it condition based. when its stable well draw down troops. so you dont give the taliban how long they have to wait until they just come back, which is what they did. they also sold him on the idea that they could do this more c...

Government is trying to do, and also lets be frank, the taliban owns more of afghanistan than it did before 9/11 so there are elements of work that need to be done. >> not to be skeptical -- >> be skeptical. >> -- i know there are a lot of smart people working on this with a lot of battlefield experience. ive covered iraq and afghanistan. ive been there a dozen times in each place. ive heard this argument, local forces are standing up, theyre better now, we need fewer of us, its, et cetera, but ...

The president confronts americas longest war. just a short time from now mr. trump will use his first primetime address on a national security issue to lay out his plan for the deadly war in afghanistan. he is the third american president to wrestle with an afghan strategy. and hes taken his time. after weeks of consideration, trump huddled with his senior advisers at camp david this weekend to come to a final decision. the pentagon has presented the president with options ranging from a complet...

Possible. >> the president is right. afghanistan has been a very costly war. since the invasion in november 2001, more than 2300 americans have been killed there. more than 17,000 wounded. the financial cost, an estimated $841 billion. thats just so far. tonight the president will be at fort meyer in arlington, virginia, to ask american service members and the mesh peop american people to trust his strategy at a time when americans are publicly questioning his leadership. jessica is out front. w...