Get out of the MID EAST ! -Breitbart and the far right start to turn on Trump over his Afghanistan decision
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Vocal supporters of President Donald Trump on the far right slammed his decision to deploy additional troops to Afghanistan and ramp up engagement in the US's longest war.

Many of the president's longtime boosters criticized his about-face on Afghanistan, a war he repeatedly pilloried in the years leading up to the 2016 election.

Breitbart News, the site led by recently ousted White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, had a front-page Monday evening full of stories lambasting Trump's decision, referring to it as "unlimited war," and comparing his strategy to that of former President Barack Obama. Its top story described the speech as a "disappointment to many who had supported his calls during the campaign to end expensive foreign intervention and nation-building."

Breitbart politics reporter Adam Shaw wrote a separate story titled "Trump's 'America First' Base Unhappy with Flip-Flop Afghanistan Speech," while other top articles on the site compared the speech to an address Obama delivered in 2009, in which he said American commitment to Afghanistan would not be a "blank check."

A snapshot of Breitbart's homepage Monday evening.Breitbart
Conservative pundits Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham both questioned the wisdom of increased troop levels.

Far-right provocateurs who have boosted Trump on different social-media platforms also slammed the speech.

Stefan Molyneux, a far-right podcaster and YouTube broadcaster, highlighted Trump's past calls for troop withdraw from Afghanistan, while internet personality Mike Cernovich mocked the supposed influence of national-security adviser H.R. McMaster and adviser Jared Kushner on the policy.

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