The president is right on Afghanistan

Last night President Trump announced the United States will be sending additional U.S. troops to train, advise, and assist Afghan security forces in Afghanistan, a move that Heritage has advocated. “An Afghanistan that is free, stable and governable is in America’s best interest,” said Luke Coffey, director of Heritage’s Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy. “Achieving that end can only be achieved with results on the ground—not by a calendar set by political expediency, and it can only be achieved by resetting America’s strategy in South Asia.” Read more about what success looks like in Afghanistan.

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