Thread by @didikins4life

This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This part is called: 🇺🇸Transforming Our Armed Forces for the 21st century🇺🇸Only one party understands that it’s time to bring nearly two decades of unceasing conflict to an end and transform our Armed Forces for the future. 1/10

#Democrats believe our military is—and must be—the most effective fighting force in the world.
To keep it that way, we need to bring our forever wars to a responsible end, 2/10 #DemPartyPlatform #EndForeverWar

#Democrats know we must rationalize our defense budget, invest in the forces & technologies of the future, repair civil-military relations, and strengthen our covenant with service members, veterans, and military families. 3/10 #DemPartyPlatform #Military #CivilMilitaryRelations

Ending Forever Wars
#Democrats know it’s time to bring nearly two decades of unceasing conflict to an end. 4/10
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Our military engagements, which have spanned from West Africa to Southeast Asia, have cost more than $5 trillion and claimed more than half a million lives. 5/10 #DemPartyPlatform #Military #EndlessWar

Our war in #Afghanistan is the longest war in American history, with the youngest U.S. troops now fighting a war that was launched before they were even born. 6/10 #DemPartyPlatform #Military

President Trump said he would get the United States out of these wars, but instead he deployed more combat forces, expanded their missions, and stoked regional tensions that unnecessarily endangered American lives and interests. 7/10
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#Democrats will deliver on this overdue commitment to end the forever wars, and we will do it responsibly—setting priorities, leading with diplomacy, protecting ourselves from terrorist threats, enabling local partners, and bringing our troops home.8/10 #DemPartyPlatform

#Democrats are committed to a durable and inclusive political settlement in #Afghanistan that ensures that al-Qaeda isn’t allowed to reconstitute, 9/10 #DemPartyPlatform #Military

#Democrats will commit to a solution that will ensure that the Islamic State (ISIS) isn’t allowed to grow, and the international community can help Afghans safeguard hard-fought gains, especially for women and girls. 10/10 #DemPartyPlatform #Military