Obama Pentagon official: Afghanistan troop withdrawal 'is not going to be a pretty picture'
A former top Pentagon official under President Barack Obama warns that the U.S. withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan — now slated for the end of next month — is “not going to be a pretty picture” and that the Afghan government is unlikely “to hold its own” against the Taliban. “Now we have to be realistic,” Jeh Johnson said during an interview on the . “This is not going to be a pretty picture after we leave. It’s already not a pretty picture.”/ Johnson’s comments are significant because he served as chief counsel at the Pentagon during a ...
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