In September, Trump called off talks to end America’s longest war after a Taliban attack killed a U.S. soldier.
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — President Donald Trump made a surprise trip to Afghanistan on Thanksgiving to rally U.S. troops and promote the restart of peace talks to end America's longest war.
A prominent platform of Trump’s 2016 campaign was a pledge to end what he calls “endless wars” in the Middle East. But three years into his presidency, the region iswith political instability — stalled peace talks and violence in Afghanistan, anti-government protests raging through Iran, Iraq and Lebanon, a civil war ravaging Yemen and a bloody Turkish invasion in Syria.
Trump, while speaking to the troops, conceded that the war in Afghanistan “will not be decided on the battlefield.” Instead, he said, “ultimately there will need to be a political solution,” one that will be “decided by the people of the region.” Trump was also accompanied by his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, national security adviser Robert O’Brien and Sen. John Barrasso, the Wyoming Republican. Trump invited Barrasso, who has traveled to Afghanistan previously as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, when he saw him recently in New York, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said.
“It’s the first time in Thanksgiving that I’ve never had anything called turkey. But that’s okay,” he joked later, speaking to about 1,500 enthusiastic service members.
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