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Trump announces Afghanistan war policy shift (LIVE VIDEO)

RT,

21 August, 2017

President Donald Trump is anticipated to announce a new Afghanistan policy in a national address on the war at the Army's Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, next to Arlington National Cemetery.

Trump began his remarks addressing the recent violent political divisions, most vividly seen in Charlottesville, Virginia, last week.

"When one part of America hurts, we all hurt," Trump said, adding, "Loyalty to our nation demands loyalty to one another."

Trump added that US troops fighting wars abroad "deserve to return to a country that is not at war with itself at home."

Trump acknowledged that his "instincts" told him to pull out troops from Afghanistan.

"Historically, I like following my instincts," Trump said. He concluded differently, however.

"A hasty withdrawal," Trump said, would create a "vacuum" for terrorists.

Trump lamented the 20 terrorist groups operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the "highest concentration in any region, anywhere in the world," he said.

"Pakistan often gives safe haven to agents of chaos," he said, noting that there is nuclear-powered tensions between Pakistan and its neighbor India.

Trump called terrorists "nothing but thugs and criminals and, that's right, losers."

"We will not talk about numbers of troops," Trump said.

"Conditions on the ground," not public timetables, will determine the US' strategy, he said.

"I will not say when we are going to attack, but attack we will," he added.

"We are not nation building again. We are killing terrorists," he said.

Trump was widely expected to heed the advice of his senior advisors Monday evening and announce an increase of the number of US troops in Afghanistan, which currently stands around 8,400.