The US president said that the American military will no longer participate in nation-building missions in other countries.
Speaking at the graduation ceremony of the US Military Academy, Donald Trump criticized America’s past military strategy, stating that for the past two decades, the US military had been deployed to countries under the banner of nation-building, where there was no real need for an American military presence.
He stressed that this approach has now come to an end.
The US President said: “For at least two decades, political leaders from both parties have dragged our military into missions, it was never meant to be. It wasn’t meant to be. People would say, ‘Why are we doing this?’ ‘Why are we wasting our time, money, and souls,’ in some case. They sent our warriors on nation-building crusades to nations that wanted nothing to do with us, led by leaders that didn’t have a clue in distant lands, while abusing our soldiers with absurd ideological experiments here and at home. All of that’s ended.”
Meanwhile, the chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, US Congressman Mike Bost, described Bagram Airbase as the closest strategic location for confronting US adversaries. He also criticized the manner in which American forces withdrew from Afghanistan.
He said: He said: “You’ve got China, Afghanistan and Russia … we would have had the most forward air base right there.”
Although the US President and other American officials have repeatedly criticized how the United States exited Afghanistan, Washington’s official stance on Afghanistan remains unclear.
Previously, the US Secretary of State also said that the future US policy toward Afghanistan’s interim government is under review.
