WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says President Donald Trump is gathering his national security team to attempt again to settle on a new Afghanistan policy.
In remarks at the State Department, Mattis told reporters the talks Friday at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland will “move this toward a decision.” He did not predict a decision but repeated a statement he made on Monday at the Pentagon that a decision is likely in “the very near future.”
The administration has been wrestling with how to proceed in Afghanistan, where the U.S. has been bogged down in war for nearly 16 years. The conflict has been stalemated for more than a year; Mattis is believed to favor sending a few thousand more U.S. troops, but others in the administration oppose that.
Trump’s plan, no? Isn’t it ready to go?
Real Soon Now™
Maybe after another Friedman Unit.
Afghanistan Policy Week will be in late September. Donnie will spend most of it in a feud with the hosts of The View, will attempt (and fail) to torpedo a debt ceiling increase, and will console himself by having a third scoop of ice cream at his golf course. That is all.
Trump Units: 2-3 weeks.
“We’re going to be announcing something I would say over the next two or three weeks that will be phenomenal in terms of (insert appropriate deliverable).” “It’ll be great (beautiful, fabulous, breathtaking, or other real estate adjectival hyperbole).”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-06/in-trump-s-white-house-everything-s-coming-in-two-weeks
I don’t understand how these generals stay in these positions and make these ridiculous statements with straight faces. The Trump administration has been in office for almost 7 months in addition to the preparation period between the election and the inauguration. By saying that we “will have an Afghan policy sometime in the near future,” they are admitting that they didn’t devise one and don’t have one. No wonder the world is laughing at us.