And Mr. Trump did not run for office promising to turn around the war in Afghanistan, as Mr. Obama did. In fact, Mr. Trump said next to nothing about the Afghan war during the 2016 campaign. Advertisement Continue reading the main story“It is time to get out of Afghanistan,” Mr. Trump wrote on Feb. 27, 2012. Obama on Afghanistan,” Mr. Trump said on Jan. 14, 2013. But Mr. Trump is discovering, as Mr. Obama did, that extricating the United States is harder than it appears.

Source: New York Times June 03, 2017 18:56 UTC