Trump Says Pandemic Justifies Afghanistan Pullout

“President Trump has pushed his military and national security advisers in recent days to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan amid concerns about a major coronavirus outbreak in the war-torn country,” NBC News reports.

“Trump complains almost daily that U.S. troops are still in Afghanistan and are now vulnerable to a deadly pandemic… His renewed push to withdraw all of them has been spurred by the convergence of his concern that coronavirus poses a force protection issue for thousands of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and his impatience with the halting progress of his peace deal with the Taliban.”