Weary of war, Trump determined to bring U.S. troops home

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WE’RE GETTING OUT: Against the advice of his national security team and over the objections of many of his own party in Congress, President Trump made it abundantly clear in his Super Bowl Sunday interview with CBS that he’s determined to pull U.S troops out of Syria, Afghanistan and perhaps elsewhere.

“I think everybody’s tired. We ought to get out of these endless wars and bring our folks back home,” Trump told CBS’ Margaret Brennan in a segment of the interview that aired on “Face the Nation” yesterday morning. “We’re the policemen of the world. And we don’t have to be.”

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