Mattis Makes Unannounced Visit to Afghanistan

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Mattis Makes Unannounced Visit to Afghanistan
by Naharnet Newsdesk

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis landed in Kabul on Friday for an unannounced visit to war-torn Afghanistan, adding his weight to a flurry of diplomatic efforts to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table.

His trip comes a little more than a year after President Donald Trump unveiled a revamped strategy for Afghanistan that saw him commit thousands of additional US forces to the country on an open-ended basis.

Mattis, on his fourth visit to the country since becoming defence chief in January 2017, will meet with President Ashraf Ghani and the new US commander for American and NATO forces, General Scott Miller.

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Bless the man, he knows more about what is happening than anyone. I will say, if one is an "isolationist" type and Trump ran a bit on that platform, there is room to wonder about Afghanistan.

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Bless the man, he knows more about what is happening than anyone. I will say, if one is an "isolationist" type and Trump ran a bit on that platform, there is room to wonder about Afghanistan.

We rushed in without knowing how to get out.

[TomSea]

We rushed in without knowing how to get out.

We had to do something about Afghanistan (911). Nowadays, those contractors spoke about filling in the Afghanistan role.