Why Trump Carried Out His Pentagon Purge
With his Administration coming to a close, the President is still reshaping the government around himself.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/why-trump-carried-out-his-pentagon-purge
The situation in Afghanistan is tenuous. In February, American and Taliban diplomats signed an agreement, by which the United States would withdraw all of its forces once security conditions in Afghanistan were stable. But Trump has been reducing the number of U.S. troops even though the conditions have not yet been met. American officials say that the President has been undercutting his own negotiators and emboldening the Taliban. “The trouble with the Taliban is, they are getting everything for free now,” an American official told me.