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Any historian for that matter will tell you it's always easy to go to war. it's a whole lot harder to end it. so you should have an end state before you go in, you should avoid miscalculations, you should try to present facts and you should have an overarching strategy that says, here's what we're trying to accomplish and here are the ways and means we're going to do it. and here are some things, oh, by the way, that might occur that we better be prepared for. so, yeah, it is easy to make that phone call, but there's a whole lot of other things that any kind of leader has to do before going in...

With no clear end state where our strategy just seems to be mud willing muddling along. i actually served as a marine prior to going to rack, biraq, need to focus on the policy and i think president trump needs to focus and get out. and while politics doesn't matter, it's not the most political thing. but politically it would be advantageous for him. in polling that's been done, it shows that overwhelmingly, as you said, the american people want to get out of afghanistan. that's what president trump should do. >> but i can just say that, i mean, we are all exhausted from this war. we are all e...

There is a growing consensus in the united states that china is an economic predator and i think there's something of a consensus globally taking place on this. he is absolutely on the right side of this issue. i think the american people want the president to win this issue. >> bingo. i heard from a friend yesterday in minnesota, talking to pork producers and others who are feeling the pain. they're saying i would like resolution on this but i understand what the president is doing in the long term. china has been an economic predator. free trade is not an end state. it's a means to prosperit...

Into a war, you normally have an end state after you've achieved that end state, you have an exit strategy. what is currently being discussed isn't an exit strategy, it's an exit. it's driven by political consideration as all military negotiations are. unfortunately, this one is going to have a whole lot of repercussions and will put many people on the short end of the stick. >> do you think the u.s. will be safe? after this peace deal? >> i'm sorry, will they be what? >> safe. will our security be intact? >> yeah. not from the standpoint of preventing any kind of future terroristic attack. >>...

Stains on, looks like, a tablecloth or chair covering, the shattered ceiling tiles of the banquet hall. afghanistan's president blamed the taliban for the attack in a tweet but the taliban is denying any involvement. >> this is the day after president trump discussed a palestine peace plan. that would include a u.s./taliban cease-fire but without a commitment from the taliban to hold its fire on afghan people or military. general mark hertling spoke to us last hour and said that would not be the right move. >> when you go into a war, you normally have an end state. after you achieve that end s...