Americas’s Wars in Afghanistan, Iraq & Syria: Trump Can End Them

‘LET’S BRING THEM HOME! @TuckerCarlson,” Trump tweeted Wednesday, sharing a clip of Tucker Carlson’s nightly Fox News show. “THEM” is the troops. The clip was about how much Establishment Washington remains committed to keeping America involved in Syria’s civil war, and in Afghanistan. But I’m wondering who Trump thinks is the subject of his ejaculatory tweet.

Trump can bring the troops home from Afghanistan and from Syria. He can bring the American forces back who are currently helping Saudi Arabia in Yemen. Or who are deployed in Operation Juniper Shield in Niger. Trump should figure out that if they had been popular wars, Congress would have authorized them. They’re not. They were authorized by his predecessors, and he doesn’t need permission to end them.

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‘LET’S BRING THEM HOME! @TuckerCarlson,” Trump tweeted Wednesday, sharing a clip of Tucker Carlson’s nightly Fox News show. “THEM” is the troops. The clip was about how much Establishment Washington remains committed to keeping America involved in Syria’s civil war, and in Afghanistan. But I’m wondering who Trump thinks is the subject of his ejaculatory tweet.

Trump can bring the troops home from Afghanistan and from Syria. He can bring the American forces back who are currently helping Saudi Arabia in Yemen. Or who are deployed in Operation Juniper Shield in Niger. Trump should figure out that if they had been popular wars, Congress would have authorized them. They’re not. They were authorized by his predecessors, and he doesn’t need permission to end them.