"His falsehoods...reach a new low"...
Editor's note: The Wall Street Journal broke with President Trump over his remarks on Wednesday about Afghanistan and Russia.
President Trump's remarks on Afghanistan at his cabinet meeting Wednesday were a notable event, the Journal's editorial board wrote Thursday on wjs.com.
They will be criticized heavily, and deservedly so, the board added.
The full text is available on the White House Website.
Mr. Trump ridiculed other nations' commitment of troops to fight alongside America's in Afghanistan.
He said, "They tell me a hundred times, 'Oh, we sent you soldiers. We sent you soldiers.'"
This mockery is a slander against every ally that has supported the U.S. effort in Afghanistan with troops who fought and often died.
The United Kingdom has had more than 450 killed fighting in Afghanistan, the board noted.
As reprehensible was Mr. Trump's utterly false narrative of the Soviet Union's involvement there in the 1980s, the board wrote.
He said, "The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia. They were right be be there."
Right to be there? We cannot recall a more absurd misstatement of history by an American President. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan with three divisions in December 1979 to prop up a fellow communist government.
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