Trump Outlines New Afghanistan War Strategy With Few Details<br />Adopting a phrase from Mr. Trump’s speech, he said he thought he heard a new Trump doctrine of "principled realism." The Afghanistan strategy was a consequential moment after a tumultuous<br />week for Mr. Trump, whose response to racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Va., raised questions about his ability to shoulder the responsibilities of a president.<br />Camp David described that But all my life, I’ve heard that decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk in the Oval Office.<br />WASHINGTON — President Trump put forward on Monday a long-awaited strategy for resolving the nearly 16-year-old conflict in Afghanistan, but he declined to specify either the number of troops<br />that would be committed, or the conditions by which he would judge the success of their mission there.<br />He promised that he would loosen restrictions on American soldiers to enable them to hunt down terrorists, which he labeled "thugs and criminals and predators, and — that’s right — losers." "The killers need to know they have nowhere to hide,<br />that no place is beyond the reach of American might and American arms," the president said.<br />In announcing his plan, Mr. Trump became the third consecutive American president to be confounded by<br />the conflict in Afghanistan, now the longest military operation in the history of the United States.<br />In a nationally televised prime-time speech to troops at Fort Myer, Va., Mr. Trump<br />said there would be no "blank check" for the American engagement in Afghanistan.
