Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170821:14:11:00
>> i don't think the good option exists. he's in a very, very similar place that president obama found himself in eight years ago looking at a similar bad set of options. it sounds like he's going to, essentially, stay the course. with a slight increase and there will be talk about changing the strategy. but we've been working the strategy here for 16 years. not like a magic bullet out there that everyone has missed for the last decade and a half. we're essentially going to do something very similar to what we've been doing. >> and what aboutthe afghanistan commitment here. thousands of afghan...