Vice President Mike Pence tweeted on Sunday (Jan. 17) that he is “proud” that the Trump administration has not gotten the United States into any new wars in the past four years.
“With only a few days left in our administration, I’m proud to report that ours is the first administration in decades that has not gotten the U.S. into a new round of war.” The vice president wrote, “This is peace through strength.”
Since taking office, President Trump has worked to bring home U.S. troops stationed overseas. Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller said in a Jan. 15 statement that the U.S. has achieved the Trump administration’s goal of reducing the number of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan to 2,500 each.
At its peak in 2011, the U.S. had 98,000 troops in Afghanistan.
Pence’s comments on Sunday came at the beginning of a string of tweets from him. He said that as vice president, he “sees the strength and resilience of the American people shining through” and that he “believes that one day we will put these challenging times in the past and emerge stronger and better than ever.”
During his time in office, Trump has been pushing for the denuclearization of countries like North Korea, and on June 30, 2020, he met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Panmunjom and took 20 steps toward North Korean soil, becoming the first sitting U.S. president in history to visit North Korea.
Earlier on Jan. 17, Pence visited troops at Fort Drum, N.Y., and gave a speech, according to North Country Public Radio. He said it was his last speech as vice president.
He thanked the 10th Mountain Division, which is stationed there. and noted that the division has been deployed nearly 50 times to Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001.
“There is not a day that goes by that I and every American don’t owe a debt of gratitude to the 10th Mountain Division and to every American hero in uniform.” Pence said.
The White House issued a statement in October 2020 praising the military accomplishments of the Trump administration, Fox News reported. These include the beheading of the world’s top terrorist, Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, without alerting large forces, and the killing of Gen. Qasem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps.
On April 8, 2019, Trump designated the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as a “terrorist organization.”
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