{"id":6470,"date":"2019-07-13T10:58:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T05:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=6470"},"modified":"2019-07-13T12:35:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T07:35:37","slug":"general-calls-rushed-troop-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-a-strategic-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/6470","title":{"rendered":"General Calls Rushed Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan a \u2018Strategic Mistake\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan too soon would be a \u201cstrategic mistake,\u201d President Trump\u2019s nominee for Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman said clearly, outlining the Pentagon\u2019s position as the White House wrestles with whether to pull military forces and end the 18-year war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it is slow, it\u2019s painful, it\u2019s hard \u2014 I spent a lot of my life in Afghanistan \u2014 but I also think it\u2019s necessary,\u201d Gen. Mark A. Milley, the nominee, said about the American military\u2019s continuing mission at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.<\/p>\n<p>General Milley\u2019s tough line on the war comes as the United States and the Taliban navigate their seventh round of peace negotiation.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier peace dialogues have focused on two main planks: the withdrawal of Western troops and the Taliban\u2019s pledge to deny any safe haven to terrorist groups in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan too soon would be a \u201cstrategic mistake,\u201d President Trump\u2019s nominee for Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman said clearly, outlining the Pentagon\u2019s position as the White House wrestles with whether to pull military forces and end the 18-year war. \u201cI think it is slow, it\u2019s painful, it\u2019s hard \u2014 I spent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6472,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions\/6472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}