What the US Should Achieve in Afghanistan

• August 23, 2017

In an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, The Heritage Foundation’s Luke Coffey explains why President Donald Trump made the right call on Afghanistan.

“The goal in Afghanistan is to get that country to a point where its able to manage its internal security by itself without tens of thousands of Western troops on the ground. This is the goal. Nothing more, nothing less,” he says.

Watch the full interview above.

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Luke Coffey oversees research on nations stretching from South America to the Middle East as director of the Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Read his research.

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