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    Trump's Plan for Afghanistan: No Timeline for Exit

    Despite prime-time billing for the president’s announcement, Americans heard a familiar argument about extending the war in Afghanistan.
    by Krishnadev Calamur Aug 21, 2017 6 minutes
    Source: Joshua Roberts / Reuters

    Updated at 10:13 p.m. ET

    What a difference four years and a presidential election victory make. In 2013, Donald Trump offered this prescription for what the U.S. should do in Afghanistan:

    On Monday night, Trump offered a new plan for Afghanistan, combing a military strategy with one that puts Pakistan on notice for supporting militants, and saying while the U.S. wanted the Afghan government to succeed, U.S. support was not a “blank check.” Trump also moved decisively away from the Bush-era policy of the U.S. as a force to spread democracy overseas.

    “We are not nation-building again,” he said. “We are killing terrorists.”

    Rex Tillerson, his secretary of state, went further. In a statement released after Trump’s remarks, he said the U.S. was making clear the Taliban will not win on the battlefield.

    “The Taliban has a path to peace and political legitimacy through a negotiated political settlement

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