Trump on new Afghanistan strategy: We are no longer nation-building, we're killing terrorists

President Trump has apparently been doing more behind the scenes than approving of Nazis. (Right, he's not doing that at all, contrary to what you've been led to believe.) In recent months, the president has been huddling with his top military and foreign policy advisors trying to determine a way forward on Afghanistan. It's about time. We've been there nearly 16 years and we still haven't won. It's the longest war in U.S. history, and while our total number of war deaths is remarkably low for a conflict that long (less than 2,500), it's unacceptable that a single one of those deaths would have occurred in the execution of a battle we can't win, or don't know how to win. So after months of studying the situation and considering options, President Trump (who openly acknowledged his first instinct was to simply get out), addressed the nation last night with a new way forward. It's hard to find a single decision he announced last night that isn't a good one: