Donald Trump Drives Home Urgency to End ‘Never Ending Wars’ in Emotional Speech

“They’re overrated,” he said, praising instead the generals who were actually deployed overseas.

Trump said he frequently felt alone in his fight to bring the troops home, but felt that he was on the right path.

“Now I’m sort of an island of one again, but now it’s maybe happening again,” Trump said.

He recalled in detail what it was like to be at the Dover Air Force Base with the families of soldiers who lost their lives overseas.

Trump said that despite the bravery and strength shown by family members and loved ones, they usually broke down when the flag-draped coffin came out of the cargo plane.

“You would hear the screams and cries like you’ve never heard before actually,” he said.

Trump recalled a colonel once told him that sometimes a wife or a mother would break through the military line and throw themselves on the coffin after it emerged from the plane and express their sorrow.

“We’ve been in these wars now, one of them 19 years, and we don’t fight to win, we fight to just stay there,” he said.

Trump said he hoped that the Kurds would withdraw from the border areas of Syria next to Turkey, rather than fight their forces.

“No matter what we did the media will say it’s the wrong decision, I see it, it makes no difference,” he said.

The president repeated that going into the Middle East was the worst decision ever made by the United States, noting the expensive war and the loss of life over weapons of mass destruction that did not exist.

“We don’t want to be in 19-year wars where we serve as the police force of the entire country,” Trump said, referring to the war in Afghanistan.

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