{"id":18371,"date":"2019-07-24T19:26:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T02:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=18371"},"modified":"2019-07-24T19:26:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T02:26:29","slug":"clarifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2019\/07\/24\/clarifications\/","title":{"rendered":"clarifications?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Afghanistan\u00c2\u00a0has said the\u00c2\u00a0United States\u00c2\u00a0should clarify comments by President\u00c2\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>…<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh boy.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know that Trump is interested in clarifying the comments, but I’m as good a representative for the “United States” as anyone, so I’ll take a crack.\u00c2\u00a0 What were President Trump’s comments?<\/p>\n

“I have plans on Afghanistan that, if I wanted to win that war, Afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the Earth. It would be gone,” Trump told reporters. “It would be over in – literally, in 10 days. And I don’t want to do, I don’t want to go that route.”<\/em><\/p>\n

This was met by the typical chest thumping on the part of some representatives of Afghanistan.\u00c2\u00a0 The familiar “Graveyard of Empires” shtick.<\/p>\n

We do have a clarification of sorts from Trump…<\/p>\n

At one point in his Oval Office remarks, Trump referred to dropping America’s largest non-nuclear bomb on Afghanistan in 2017, and said that dropping more of them would be the “easy solution” to ending the conflict there.<\/em><\/p>\n

Not the mention the nuclear ones, which… see, the development of the A Bomb during World War Two has created a new calculus which would blow away the whole “Graveyard of Empires”, though with repercussions of old paranoid 50s era science fiction<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Citizen Trump once tweeted the question for the Obama Administration — why are we still having troops out there fighting in Afghanistan?\u00c2\u00a0 He’s finally getting around to this as president, though predictably giving it his Biff Tannen spin.<\/p>\n

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Afghanistan\u00c2\u00a0has said the\u00c2\u00a0United States\u00c2\u00a0should clarify comments by President\u00c2\u00a0Donald Trump… Oh boy.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know that Trump is interested in clarifying the comments, but I’m as good a representative for the “United States” as anyone, so I’ll take a crack.\u00c2\u00a0 What were President Trump’s comments? “I have plans on Afghanistan that, if I wanted to win […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18401,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18371\/revisions\/18401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}