Trump: I Could Win Afghan War in a Week—But ‘Don’t Want to Kill 10 Million People’
President Donald Trump on Monday claimed he could easily win a war in Afghanistan “in a week,” but doesn’t “want to go that route” because he’d have to “kill 10 million people.”
The president, speaking to reporters alongside visiting Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan, said he wants Pakistan to help “extricate” the U.S. from its longest war. U.S. officials have been trying to negotiate a peace deal with the Afghan Taliban.
“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, it would be over literally in 10 days,” he insisted, adding, “I don’t want to go that route.”
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