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TRUMP JUST CAN’T QUIT AFGHANISTAN

IMAGINE BEING A U.S. citizen who believes that America should withdraw its troops from Afghanistan after nearly 18 years of increasingly pointless war. Shouldn’t be too hard, since that describes 61 percent of Americans—and an eye-popping 69 percent of veterans—polled in October 2018 by YouGov.

But let’s also stipulate that by some glitch in the time-space continuum you become president of the United States, and that in one of

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