ReCoRD

Reading Comprehension with Commonsense Reasoning Dataset


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Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump on Monday vowed the US will "fight to win" in Afghanistan, extending the 16-year campaign there with a promise to beef up the American military presence while ratcheting up pressure on other countries in the region to help turn the tide. In a prime-time address before a crowd of US troops, Trump sought to convince the country that he was applying a different strategy to the enduring Afghan conflict. But he offered few details, sticking to broad outlines -- beating back the Taliban, annihilating terrorists and cracking down on Pakistan's harboring of militants -- that shed little daylight between the current and future US approaches to the 16-year war.

  • Trump offered his plans for the US strategy in Afghanistan on Monday in a primetime address
  • His decision comes on the heels of months of internal debate over the scope of the US's ongoing engagement


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Trump also said the US would continue to work to strengthen Afghan security forces, noting that "the stronger the X security forces become, the less we will have to do."

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