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17th US Commander Takes Over America’s Longest War
« on: September 03, 2018, 10:05:07 pm »
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17th US Commander Takes Over America’s Longest War

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However, if these efforts fail to bear fruit soon, some in Washington fear President Donald Trump, who said while announcing his South Asia policy last year that he was going against his instinct to pull out, would lose patience.


FILE - Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., answers reporters' questions during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.

According to The Washington Post, President Trump told Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky that he wanted to pull out of Afghanistan. One of the reasons for his impatience is the high price tag. The U.S. Congress has year marked more than $46 billion for next year’s military operations. In the last 17 years, the U.S. has spent more than $1 trillion in the country, according to Congressional Research Service.

General Miller, like commanders before him, is in favor of a continued U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, at least till the country stabilized.

Read more at: https://www.voanews.com/a/new-u-s-general-takes-command-in-afghanistan/4554388.html

Informative article.

Wikipedia article on the new commander: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_S._Miller