Afghans to Trump: Your troop-withdrawal plan could derail peace process
by Shashank Bengali and Sultan Faizy, Los Angeles Times
Dec 21, 2018
3 minutes
KABUL, Afghanistan - If President Donald Trump withdraws up to half of the 14,000 U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan, it would undermine a nascent U.S.-backed peace process and the confidence of a Kabul government that American taxpayers have spent more than $2 billion to support, Afghans said Friday.
Many Afghans said reports that U.S. officials were developing plans to pull the troops out by summer - a sharp U-turn after Trump pumped more troops into combat duty in Afghanistan last year - would deliver a boost to the Taliban
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