08-21-2017 (Photo: File:Afghanistan 18.jpg) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Trump chooses a “South Asia strategy” of “principled realism.” Host. “…Trump’s decision is a middle path that does not hew to either of the main foreign policy themes he articulated as a candidate: to stay out of expensive overseas quagmires, and to decisively win any conflict worth entering. It followed months of deliberations within the new administration, which swung from a bold stroke to yank U.S. forces after nearly 16 years of war to options that would sprinkle more U.S. trainers and Special Operations troops around the vast country in hopes of forcing the Taliban to the table and preventing the formation of another terrorist haven. By tweaking a course set by President Barack Obama, Trump suggests that he, like Obama and President George W. Bush before him, is facing the bleak reality of Afghanistan: There is no fast or politically palatable way to win, but losing quickly isn’t an acceptable option, either…” https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-faces-the-grim-reality-of-afghanistan-no-quick-path-to-victory-and-no-way-out/2017/08/21/7ff53bbe-868f-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_afghananalysis-1015pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.2b5d83c572b4