Isolationist Peacenik President wants you to know he has his finger on the button
by digby
Trump casually says that if he wanted to, "Afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the Earth — it would be over literally in 10 days." 😳 pic.twitter.com/YBPQYnueXJ— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 22, 2019
President Donald Trump sometimes makes some head-scratching comments. Casually mentioning a plan to kill 10 million people in Afghanistan definitely ranks as one of them.
Ahead of a Monday meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, Trump told reporters at the White House that he could win the war in Afghanistan in just one week if he really, really wanted to. But Trump says he won’t do that because he doesn’t want millions to die.
“I don’t want to kill 10 million people,” he said. “I have plans on Afghanistan that if I wanted to win that war, Afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the earth, it would be gone, it would be over in literally 10 days.”
Yes, you read that right: The US president is saying that he has some secret plan to “win” the war against the Taliban — a war that has lasted nearly 20 years — in just over a week.
He wants to make sure everyone knows he can kill 10 million people with one order. But he says he doesn’t want to do that. So that’s good. I guess.