Not impulsive in handling Afghanistan: Trump

KABUL-related affairs, including the pullout of troops.

The US leader hit out at the Wall Street Journal, an influential US newspaper, for asking him not to be impetuous in dealing with the situation Afghanistan.

In a series of tweets, he said on Monday: “The Wall Street Journal editorial states that it doesn’t want me to act in an 'impulsive' manner in Afghanistan.”

The Americans had been in Afghanistan for 19 years, he wrote, saying the soldier counts were way down at the moment -- something that was hardly impulsive.

Additionally, the president said, the Taliban -- making a fortune by having the Americans in Afghanistan -- were mixed about even wanting the US to get out of that country.

“We are more of a police force than the mighty military that we are, especially now as rebuilt. No, I am not acting impulsively!” he insisted.

The newspaper editorially warned about the risk of Taliban trying to get control of the country in the wake of what it called a haphazard US troop pullout.

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