CNN:
President Donald Trump has been quietly pushing his national security officials for months to find a way to get Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan back from the Taliban, three people familiar with the matter told CNN.
Trump hinted at those discussions publicly for the first time on Thursday, telling reporters that his administration is working to regain control of the base, which lies an hour north of Kabul. The Taliban took it over following the collapse of the Afghan government and the US military withdrawal in 2021.
Wow, that is stupid. A few years ago, when I wrote that those “who call for us to re-invade and re-occupy [Afghanistan] must be ignored,” I had no idea that the first actual proponent of such idiocy would be Donald Trump, who negotiated our departure from Afghanistan in the first place.