Trump plans to force Taliban to negotiating table by January 2025
WASHINGTON — Saying that he has unleashed the United States military and "taken the gloves off," President Donald Trump reiterated today that he would crush the Taliban insurgency and force them to the negotiating table by January 2025, sources confirmed.
Though he stressed that he was implementing a new Afghan war strategy not impeded by artificial time tables for troop withdrawals, Trump insisted that victory would be at hand sometime in the next eight years or so.
"We're about to turn the corner in this fight," Trump told reporters in a press conference after he outlined a new strategy on Monday.
In what he called a "fresh start," Trump said that the US military would stamp out rampant corruption in the Afghan government, subdue Pakistani support for the Taliban, and achieve a flourishing democracy in the region by continuing to train Afghan security forces that have been sitting through PowerPoint presentations given by US troops for the past 16 years.
Trump's bold new plan would also…
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