afghanistan. when we have a war that s gone well into two decades, this president doesn t have the patience to think through a smart strategy, and we twhknow s is a president who does like to privatize thing. the fact that he s not giving this announcement from the white house, lets us know that we re in a clubtocracy that is going to make money for himself and his family whatever way possible. i think we re going to look at going deeper into afghanistan in order for his family to make more money. the amount of time we cover this family traveling to their own properties, but still, president trump is in charge, as the leader of the free world. and now we know that there is a decision coming, he had promised
lot of his people are not understandi ining personally wh going to war means, understanding personally sending your child off to a war and if that child dies. i think he s personally feeling the weight of this. there s other parts of the administration, where he kind of leans on other people to make that decision. with hud and the education secretary, but when it comes to war, he has to look at people in their face and explain why their child lost their life. there s nothing more gut wrenching than attending a funeral at arlington that s just a child, just starting out in life. we have seen a.m. of chaos, from the beginning of this administration, hiere we are in august, they have had 17 days out of the white house, they re getting back tomorrow, no steve
may look like, but if it s not a plan to defeat terrorism in all forms, then it will be a complete failure. there s folks that are a little war weary, we have been in afghanistan for 16 years and people want to see it end. i m interested to see what he s really going to say tomorrow, and see if this is going to finalize our participation in this war. we get it, right? i lost a friend from grade school in afghanistan, i have friends from college serve in afghanistan and iraq and now i had a friend from grade school recently send her son, the generations this war is
an attempt to improve it. do you think that america could be doing a better job of that in terms of what society building looks like in afghanistan? if you go back to the giv beginning, it s gone from a brutal 15th century state at war with itself to something far different. in the last two years, a lot of those gains have started to recede. but the role of women, when we first went in there, u.s. army full colonel intelligence officer told me said that women had the status lower than that of donkeys in afghanistan. so we have moved past that, we have restaurants, hotels, a functioning system, a road network that wasn t previously there. but if we withdraw, all that
afghanistan. we have had a huge presence there, there has not been a strong centralized government based on the rule of law. the country is run mostly by ethnic and religious factions and that s not going to change. but going forward, not the past longest war, but going forward, what best serves american interests? i m confident he will not withdraw, that would be an immediate disaster. i m confident he s not going to make a substantial investment of new resources. i hope he s not going to embrace this idea of mercenaries running the war in afghanistan. so we ll put a few thousand more troops in, i think they re going to just try and hedge their bets and not have it go down the drain in the coming here. general, when we think about the fact that there have been discussions of strategy, or just kind of a teasing of strategy.