Bipartisan Bill to Bar U.S. Funds to Afghanistan Would Lead to Government Collapse

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 Bipartisan Bill to Bar U.S. Funds to Afghanistan Would Lead to Government Collapse
Posted By Natalie Johnson On May 30, 2017 @ 5:00 am 

A bipartisan bill aiming to cut funding for the war in Afghanistan would severely destabilize the nation's security environment, particularly amid a Taliban resurgence, according to regional experts.

Anthony Cordesman, the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said a withdrawal of U.S. funds to Kabul would signal the inevitable collapse of the Afghan government to extremist groups and regional powers such as Russia and Iran.

 
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