WASHINGTON (Pajhwok): Withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan without taking into account the ground realities would put at risk the security of the United States, a top Republican Senator said Thursday.
“I fear that the latest calendar-based withdrawal plan places these missions and, therefore, our nation’s security at risk,” Senator John McCain, Chairman of the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee, said.
While President Obama made the right decision to keep 9,800 US troops in Afghanistan, he repeated, the strategic folly of setting a timetable . . .
