by Lara Seligman as well as Robbie Gramer - Foreign Policy
Another devastating suicide assault inwards Kabul on Tuesday as well as an independent study on the province of affairs inwards Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan serve to underscore what is instantly a growing consensus inwards Washington: that the U.S. is making no progress toward ending the 17-year-old state of war there.
Another devastating suicide assault inwards Kabul on Tuesday as well as an independent study on the province of affairs inwards Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan serve to underscore what is instantly a growing consensus inwards Washington: that the U.S. is making no progress toward ending the 17-year-old state of war there.
More than l people were killed as well as at to the lowest degree lxxx others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself upwardly within a marriage ceremony hall inwards the Afghan capital, according to reports. This comes every bit a blow to the Trump administration’s strategy inwards Afghanistan, every bit American military machine officials had made defending major urban centers such every bit Kabul from the Taliban a linchpin of the effort.
Just days earlier the bombing, America’s top full general admitted the state of war is at an impasse. The Taliban is “not losing correct now, I intend that is fair to say,” Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said during the Halifax International Security Forum on Nov. 17.
“We used the term stalemate a twelvemonth ago, and, relatively speaking, it has non changed much.” …
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Just days earlier the bombing, America’s top full general admitted the state of war is at an impasse. The Taliban is “not losing correct now, I intend that is fair to say,” Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said during the Halifax International Security Forum on Nov. 17.
“We used the term stalemate a twelvemonth ago, and, relatively speaking, it has non changed much.” …
Read on.
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