Trump's promise to withdraw from Afghanistan 'by Christmas' reflects foreign policy disarray
President Trump’s Wednesday evening tweet saying all U.S. troops in Afghanistan “should” be “home by Christmas” does not appear to be official U.S. policy, but was nonetheless welcomed by the Taliban as a “positive step.”
Instead, the tweet appears to reflect a chaotic, COVID-19-ridden White House in which senior leaders who ostensibly work in the same building are not coordinating their statements with each other.
“We should have the small remaining number of our BRAVE Men and Women serving in Afghanistan home by Christmas!” Trump tweeted at 7:28 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday.
In a sign of the disjointed approach that has characterized this administration’s foreign policy in general and Afghanistan in particular, the tweet came just hours after Trump’s national security adviser, Robert O’Brien, said that the United States would go down to 2,500 troops in Afghanistan early next year.
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