Trump Is Responsibly Bringing Endless Wars To A Close

On the 2016 campaign trail Trump promised to scale back America’s entanglements, specifically calling out Afghanistan as a drain on our valuable human and economic resources. This was understandably a hit with military families, veterans and active duty service members.

Several years ago, President Trump stressed the importance of ending the U.S. engagement in Syria, vowing to “get out” of the country in the near future.

“I want to bring our troops back home. I want to start rebuilding our nation. We will have, as of three months ago, spent over 7 trillion dollars over the last 17 years – we get nothing out of it. We have nothing but death and destruction. It’s horrible. Sometimes it’s time to come back home,” said President Trump.

There should be bi-partisan support for ending the war in Afghanistan and changing our focus from nation building in the Middle East to creating stability in our own hemisphere. Candidates are keen to run on the issue but do very little once elected to office. President Trump, however, is an exception. He has reduced troop levels in Syria and Germany and has promised to do even more during his second term in office.