Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:

U.S. General: Current Conditions ‘Don’t Merit’ Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan

U.S. Army General Joseph Votel, head of the U.S. Central Command, has said that the current political situation in Afghanistan and the status of negotiations with the Taliban currently under way “don’t merit” a troop withdrawal, despite President Donald Trump’s goal of a drawdown.

“These decisions have to be based more on conditions than specific times” and must “pivot off political progress,” Votel said during a House Armed Services Committee hearing in Washington on March 7.

Didn’t Votel get the memo? The plan is already to stay forever.