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Donald Trump will ask Americans Monday to trust him on his new Afghanistan strategy, exercising a president’s most somber duty, a decision on waging war, at a time when his own political standing is deeply compromised.
Trump will make his first prime-time broadcast on a specific policy issue to the nation as president at 9 p.m. ET to unveil his new plan, and a potential escalation of the nation’s longest war, after a lengthy period of deliberations that carved deep splits within his administration.
The speech will test the President’s capacity to convince Americans that he has settled on the right course of action on a major national security issue, and to unify the nation around it, despite his own depleted approval ratings and behavior that has alienated many voters in his first seven months in office.
Trump’s first major national security address will also begin to show whether the credibility that the President has squandered, with his provocative rhetoric and frequent resort to falsehoods, will hamper his capacity to lead.
After all he said on the campaign trail the American people would be more likely to trust Carrot Top than this bozo when it comes to any military matters.
I doubt he’ll mention it in the speech but we know what he would order if he could — torture, bomb the shit out of ’em, dip bullets in pig’s blood and stage mass executions — and take all the natural resources because to the victors belong the spoils. I don’t know if that’s what they’re going to do but it’s most certainly what HE wants to do.