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Hasn't every Presidential administration been promising to get us out of those foreign conflicts? Including Clinton and Obama/Biden. And nobody did jack. after 4 years I'd hardly call it rushed. when we've been there for decades.
?? What foreign conflicts did Clinton promise to take us out of? I don't recall any. In fact, Clinton resisted mounting public sentiment to attack Iraq, and ignored the infamous PNAC "open letter" calling for the ouster of Saddam Hussein.
As for Obama, during his campaign, he repeated over and over and over and over and over again that he thought Afghanistan was the right war, and that we should be there! He said Bush the Lesser had dropped the ball on Iraq, and that we should have never gone to war there. But just like Cheney himself had explained way back during Bush the Elder's time in the first Gulf War, Iraq became a quagmire and very difficult to extricate ourselves from. (Rather ironic that Cheney was a dove on Iraq occupation when he was with Bush the Elder, but then became very much a hawk on Iraq re-invasion and occupation when he became Bush the Lesser's VP)
So no - every presidential administration has not been promising to get us out of those conflicts. Frankly though, in my opinion, if Trump pulls us out of Afghanistan, it will be the only thing he has gotten right in his tenure in office.