trump watch monday august 21, 2017. donald trump won his electoral victory last november with a promise to quote end stupid wars. what i expected him to say tonight in prime time will be a contradigs. i expect he will call for more troops in afghanistan and call for in fact 50% hike in american forces there from 8,000 to 12,000. to put it another way instead offeding the 16-year american war over there, long nest our history, he will lengthen it. my question is how is this any different than previous presidents? from kennedy to nixon to johnson, to bush to obama to trump in iraq. how he is different than any president before him to make the decision to keep an american war going long enough to escape blame from having lost it. how does trump just if i putting more troops in harm's way after