WASHINGTON – American Vice President Mike Pence has responded over mediareports on a possible withdrawal of a “significant” number of US forcesfrom Afghanistan.
US Vice President Mike Pence said Trump “is in the process of evaluating”whether to remove troops from Afghanistan.
He made the remarks in an exclusive interview with Fox News. The Fox Newssaid in a report that Pence vowed that the military’s withdrawal from Syriawill be conducted in an “orderly fashion.”
Asked whether Trump would similarly pursue an Afghanistan withdrawal, as hehas reportedly been debating, Pence said only that the idea was underactive consideration.
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“Well, the president is in the process of evaluating that, as we speak,”Pence said as quoted by Fox News.
“I was in Afghanistan last year. In his speech in August, President Trump,basically through new rules of engagement, new resources, additionalmilitary personnel, gave our folks on the ground the ability to take thefight, be at the tip of the spear, supporting the Afghan National Army inthe battle against the Taliban, ISIS (Daesh), Khorasan, Al Qaeda,re-emerging in Afghanistan,” the US Vice President said as quoted by FoxNews.
