[Tolo News] Addressing a White House press briefing on Saturday night, the U.S President’s National Security Advisor H.R McMaster said that 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...
has not yet made a decision regarding the deployment of additional troops to Afghanistan.
McMaster said that Trump will have the opportunity to hear from allies during his upcoming foreign trip, which will include stops at the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure....
summit and the gathering of G7 nations.
On the issue of additional troops, McMaster said: "The president has not made a decision yet on a course of action. What we have done which is what we have done in many cases on the
North Korea problems for example, is we have consulted broadly across our government and with allies."The president wants to hear from our allies as well. This is a president who listens to its allies and partners who have an opportunity to do this at the NATO summit, who have an opportunity to do so at the G7 and so what we'll have at the end of this next few weeks here is an opportunity for a much more effective strategy for the problems set in Afghanistan, Pakistain and the region more broadly."
He said however that the U.S had engaged in "highly successful" operations in Afghanistan against ISIS in recent weeks.
"Recently we have been engaged against ISIS (ISIS) in Afghanistan with highly successful operations there that you'll hear more about in a presser at the Department of Defense in the near future.
"But what has happened in Afghanistan is the Afghan army has taken the brunt of the fight against these transnational forces of Evil and the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
and so we are working with our allies to figure out what more we can do to have a more effective strategy in Afghanistan. What are the options we can bring to the president to be more effective and meeting our objectives in Afghanistan and what more can we ask our allies to do what we're asking them now so this is going to be consistent with the president's guidance to us."