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(6,377 posts)Didn't explicitly say a troop increase, didn't say there wouldn't be a troop increase. It was just all really vague.
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)Skidmore
(37,364 posts)trust him with secrecy, and, oh yes, trade. He wants something with trade with India?...
chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)I was amused about his comment how many months he has studied Afghanistan since taking office, What a fucking liar.
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)that's a lie, all he does is watch Fox news that is his source for getting his fake news.
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)When I looked up from iPad (playing Solitaire) while listening to tRumpolini blather. At the mention of the word "studied"---I was sure I was hearing things. But nope. He said that. Studied. Now isn't that rich?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Clearly.
IADEMO2004
(5,554 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)Dem2
(8,168 posts)Most people even in government ignore what he says now
jpak
(41,758 posts)yup
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)nolabear
(41,963 posts)My brief foray to Fox revealed many an orgasm.
LesleyMoTN
(7 posts)in protecting American l i v e s ... a n d .... zzzzzzz
meaningless platitudes delivered in a deliberately subdued tone of voice. Ugh, I can't stand these programmed speeches.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)He actually portrayed a president tonight. Don't get me wrong. I do not for one second buy into the idea that he was "presidential" tonight. He is still the same person he always was, but he has finally resigned himself that he can't do whatever he wants 24/7.
What I got out of it that his Chief of Staff and Pence held an intervention and told him that if he didn't act exactly as ordered, they would cut him loose and let him rot in a big old cup of his self made fail. I think they may have finally made an impression on him.
atreides1
(16,079 posts)One speech doesn't mean he's resigned to squat!! And no one knows what happened at Camp David...we can all have fantasies about Pence being a stand up guy and Kelly actually getting through to him...but it didn't happen!
The speech was written for him and he'll be saying something completely different, either on twitter or at his Hitler rally in Phoenix, tomorrow!
Nothing has changed about this man, nothing!!!
Leith
(7,809 posts)1. We're not leaving Afghanistan until we are satisfied.
2. We are going to bomb the fuck out of Afghanistan and Pakistan until they straighten up.
3. He called on India to handle Pakistan.
4. Whatever ally who wants to help us is welcome.
5. He is going to end terrorism.
These words sound tough and decisive, but the devil is in the details. There wasn't a word on what exactly the US is going to do or how we are going to pay for it. There wasn't a word on innocent lives we will be responsible for destroying and ending.
Eric Prince may have been disinvited to the meeting, but there is no promise that the war won't be privatized.
It sounds like he decided to be the ultimate tough guy. The problem is that there may be no way in the world to get these things done. There is no guarantee that the US will not turn into a fighting machine worse than anything than ever before.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)Leith
(7,809 posts)how it's gonna be.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$'s to a handful of people. War is a profit machine.
FFS, peace loving country, yeah, right. When we win? What have we won?
Sickening.
Leith
(7,809 posts)of the profits.
underpants
(182,803 posts)They hate each other with a passion.
Leith
(7,809 posts)I would have sworn that shitgibbon called on India to keep Pakistan in check (paraphrasing), but he just called on them to help out with Afghanistan.
My apologies.
AmandaRuth
(3,105 posts)2. invited alt R to sign up
3. it will cost a shit load of money, but they will pay for our war
Thats what I got out of it
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)ChubbyStar
(3,191 posts)Sucked his own cock and said nothing.
procon
(15,805 posts)RKP5637
(67,108 posts)UTUSN
(70,695 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,591 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)Left out for hours on a hot summer's day
IronLionZion
(45,442 posts)be more loyal? some nonsense about victory comes when we all march in lock step and trust him vaguely?
He called the enemy losers and promised to defeat them handily but can't tell us how because it's a secret.
And mentioned South Asia strategy as opposed to just Afghanistan, so that means Pakistan is involved somehow.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)conducting war, so he's going to delegate that. We are going to win by winning, and that is because we deserve to win.
Motley13
(3,867 posts)he is going to prolong the war in Afghanistan & let the military run it, even though he knows more than the generals.
Polly Hennessey
(6,797 posts)A speech made for nodding off. Nothing presidential about a monotone TelePrompTer speech. Oh, and by the way, do any of the clowns in the administration know that Pakistan and India really, really dislike each other. Good grief, someone help us.
panader0
(25,816 posts)Bring our soldiers home.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)disguised as a speech about Afghanistan