US marine, Farah province, 2009. Flickr/WBUR Boston's NPR News Station. Some rights reserved.Despite speculation that the president-elect might withdraw US troops from Afghanistan and abandon the country to its fate, this simply isn’t going to happen.
In 2013, Donald Trump tweeted, “Let’s get out of Afghanistan. Our troops are being killed by the Afghanis we train and we waste billions there. Nonsense! Rebuild the USA.”
His isolationist message struck a nerve with voters, but later Trump tried to nuance his position.
