A history of the “blood and treasure” phrase Trump keeps using about the war in Afghanistan

A history of the “blood and treasure” phrase Trump keeps using about the war in Afghanistan

In his speech announcing a new Afghanistan strategy last night, US president Donald Trump said, “nearly 16 years after [the] September 11th attacks, after the extraordinary sacrifice of blood and treasure, the American people are weary of war without victory.” He went on to lay out a plan for an essentially open-ended war, having criticized…