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Aside from the ones I just gave you?so - there are "valid" reasons why trump isn't / hasn't done it but not obama.Hmmmm..........perhaps because he has been.....Why has Trump not gotten around to doing it? ball is in his court at this point.
Dealing with the Democrats 100% commitment to obstructing / opposing everything the Presidnet and GOP has wanted to do.....
Having to fend off the 24/7 continuous BS witch hunt undermining his Presidency while searching for anything with which to Impeach him....
Delivering the strongest economy, lowest unemployment rate, lowest minority unemployment rate, most Americans working, more jobs / higher wages/ etc.......
Running an administration that has been more successful in only 2 years than the previous administration was in 8 years....
mmmmmk.
Aside from the same ones that kept Barry from doing it?
How about no solid reasonable foreign policy NOT based on the unrealistic idea of forcing our system / vision of how governments / democracies work on others, lime the people of Afghanistan whose way of life has been based on tribalism 'for ever'....whose history has consisted in continuous invasions and wars, whose primary economic product is opium that finances Taliban / terrorists...?
Regarding forcing our system of govt on others....example time:
Mubarak was a dictator, but he was 'OUR' dictator, a friend of the US. Yes, he oppressed people and lived lime a king...or dictator...which many people hated....BUT HE KEPT THE PEACE, KEPT THE TERRORISTS THERE IN CHECK, AND PROTECTED THE CHRISTIANS. It 'worked' for them as far as keeping it from becoming a terrorist $hit-hole where non-Christians and non-terrorists were slaughtered.
Obama helped overthrow Mubarak in hopes of democratic elections and a kinder gentler govt more like our own. What they / we got was the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood, 'open-season violence' on Christians, terrorist takeovers, etc...until the military stepped in and took over for a time.
Imposing our style of govt does not work. The minute we pull out of Afghanistan they will abandon all the processes and way of life that we have tried to instill there and go back to their own form of government... and the Taliban will move back in and re-establish themselves the way they were before we ever went to war with them and govt people here in power don't want that to happen so they're reluctant to leave.
So like a story of a little boy with his finger in the Dyke trying to hold back the water, we stay there hoping that as long as we are there we will have a government and allies more to our liking.
No one will admit that foreign policy is a continuing failure, a pipe dream.
At some point it's going to have to be up to the Afghan he's to decide what they want to be and to make it happen without us being there.
And you are 100% cool with that as long as you get to bash Obama some more.
You have not said a single word about the troops dying, it is all about OBAMA.
You are the number one Party before Country person on this forum. Nothing matters more to you than the party