Neocons Love Trump’s New Afghanistan Plan, Blackwater Calls It “Obama-Lite”

• Neocons Love Trump’s New Afghanistan Plan, Blackwater Calls It “Obama-Lite”
  by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com
  In an extended tweetstorm conccurrent with Trump’s Monday night Afghanistan address, Ron Paul lashed out at the president, saying that at long last, Trump’s neo-con nature had emerged. “Steve Bannon brakes removed. Neocons feeling their oats” and urging the public to “Beware! @LindseyGrahamSC loves Trump’s speech! Why are arch-neocons celebrating so much? Very telling!.” It appears that Paul’s assessment of Trump’s new strategy was not far off, because as the Hill reports today, the neoconservative wing of the Republican Party applauded President Trump’s troop surge in Afghanistan, even as members of the president’s base accused him of capitulating to the national security establishment.
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  Some of the loudest accolades came from foreign policy hawks in the Senate, including two of Trump’s fiercest GOP critics, Lindsey Graham and John McCain, who praised Trump for going against his “instinct” and delegating the decision to his generals, who convinced him that victory could be had in the 16-year war that has spanned three administrations.
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