Tuesday, July 4, 2017

We Don't Need No Steenkeen Ambassadors

A bipartisan delegation of five senators visiting U.S. troops in Afghanistan for the Independence Day holiday issued a stark warning about the Trump administration’s lack of strategy for a military conflict that has dragged on for more than a decade.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) noted with concern that Trump’s Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has yet to visit the country, and the administration has not yet nominated an ambassador in Kabul.

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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) said the military told him during the delegation that they have become alarmed by this “hollowing out of the State Department.”

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[L]awmakers from both parties slammed the lack of a “comprehensive” strategy that goes beyond military action.

  TPM
Honestly, that's a little unfair. Military action there has pretty much been our only strategy for all of the 21st century.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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