“In a marked departure from his campaign rhetoric, US President Donald Trump has outlined his new Afghanistan strategy that favours realism over politics…,” states an editorial. “Trump is right in assessing that a hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan would create a vacuum for terrorists, including the Afghan branch of Islamic State (IS), to fill…. Obama’s Afpak policy didn’t work…. Announcing deadlines for a drawdown made it easy for the Taliban to wait out the Americans. Secondly…, Pakistan provided [safe] havens.

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-troops-afghanistan-trump-afghanistan-policy-leaves-devil-100003117–politics.html

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