Doyle McManus: There is no new strategy here
When President Trump announced his decision to send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan this week, he described it as a bold new strategy to achieve victory in the 16-year-old war.
"In the end, we will win," he promised. "We will always win."
But there wasn't much that was new about the ideas Trump outlined. If you listened closely, he wasn't really promising to win the Afghan war, except in the limited sense of preventing the Taliban from toppling the U.S.-backed government.
