Trump backs off Afghan withdrawal, lambasts Pakistan
President Donald Trump addressed the nation from a military base in Arlington, Virginia (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)/ Washington (AFP) - President Donald Trump cleared the way for the deployment of thousands more US troops to Afghanistan Monday, backtracking from his promise to rapidly end America's longest war, while pillorying ally Pakistan for offering safe haven to "agents of chaos." In his first formal address to the nation as commander-in-chief, Trump discarded his previous criticism of the 16-year-old war as a waste of time and money, ...
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