David Russell: Trump and Afghanistan

Editor’s note: This commentary is by David Russell, of Perkinsville, who is retired renewable energy and securities consultant and whose writing appears in venues including the The Hill and Huffington Post.President Donald Trump talked to the nation last week about Afghanistan and told the public that he was going to follow the generals, and, in so doing, he has relegated this country to an open-ended commitment to a war 16 years in the making. He has been cheered by the Republican hawks a