THE LONGEST WAR GETS LONGER: President Trump, reading slowly and carefully from a teleprompter, and speaking before hundreds of troops at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, told the nation that America’s longest war won’t be ending anytime soon. That despite what he said repeatedly on the campaign trail about the Afghanistan war being a “total disaster” and wasting trillions of dollars better spent at home, he was convinced after months of studying Afghanistan “in great detail and from every conceivable angle,” to put aside his deep reservations and stick with the plan, albeit with some major modifications. “My original instinct was to pull out. And historically, I like following my instincts,” Trump said. “But all my life I’ve heard that decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk in the Oval Office.”