Trust deficit undermines Trump's Afghanistan speech

By Nick O'Malley
Updated August 22 2017 - 9:33pm, first published 9:30pm

There were two remarkable things about Donald Trump's speech on Afghanistan. One was that after years of advocating that the war effort be abandoned, he had come to the conclusion that instead America's military presence needed to be expanded and deadlines for departure scrapped.

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