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Trump wants Afghan forces in Kabul, other big cities
[PRESSTV] Officials from the administration US President Donald Trump...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... are pushing Afghan forces to move their soldiers to big cities like the capital Kabul, sources say. Citing three officials familiar with the president’s war strategy, The New York Times  ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported Sunday that the incentive is avoiding aggressors’ attacks in isolated outposts manned by Afghan forces. The officials further told the daily that the approach is a previously undisclosed part of the war strategy that the president announced in 2017. Several rockets have been separately fired at different residential areas in the Afghan capital of Kabul, wounding at least three people, police say. "The withdrawal resembles strategies embraced by both the Bush and B.O. regimes that have started and stuttered over the nearly 17-year war. It will effectively ensure that the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... and other Death Eater groups will hold on to territory that they have already seized, leaving the government in Kabul to safeguard the capital and cities such as Kandahar, Kunduz, Mazar-e-Sharif and Jalalabad," read the report. Earlier this month, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Washington is ready to negotiate with Taliban. Posted by: Fred 2018-07-30 |
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