Trump again says US can 'win' Afghan war 'in a week' w/o nukes, killing 10 million
Tehran (KNA) - US President Donald Trump has once again boasted that he could “win” the Afghanistan war "in a week" without using nuclear weapons, further insisting that the effort “would have to” involve killing 10 million Afghans.
"As I've said, and I'll say it any number of times - and this is not using nuclear - we could win that war in a week if we wanted to fight it, but I'm not looking to kill 10 million people," Trump reiterated on Tuesday while speaking to reporters in the White House during a meeting with his Romanian counterpart.
"I'm not looking to kill 10 million Afghans, because that's what would have to happen, and I'm not looking to do that," added the hawkish American president, without elaborating on how he would accomplish the swift conclusion of the US military's 18-year war on Afghanistan.
US-led forces invaded war-ravaged Afghanistan in 2001 as part of Washington's so-called 'war on terror' campaign to purportedly rid the country from terrorism - then led by Saudi-linked al-Qaeda terror group and the rule of allied Taliban militants.
However, since the massive US-led occupation of the country, Taliban-led terrorism and narcotics trade has drastically expanded across Afghanistan with American military commanders there admitting that the Taliban insurgents remain in control of most of the country, leading Washington to initiate "peace" negotiations with the notorious militant group years ago - which remains ongoing amid US claims that Taliban has pledged to rid Afghanistan from terrorism, prevent other terror groups from using the nation as a base to attack US interests, and even commit to women rights, despite its track record of brutal treatment of the country's female population and fiercely opposing their pursuit of education.
Source: PressTV