No, Gen McMaster, Trump has not announced a clear-cut Afghanistan policy so far. He can’t tell his knee from his elbow when it comes to this region
Source/Credit: The News
By Talat Farooq August 9, 2017
On Saturday, US National Security Adviser Gen McMaster said in a radio interview that President Trump wants Pakistan to change its ‘paradoxical’ policy regarding militant proxies. He drove his point home by elaborating: “[It] is Pakistan in particular that we want to really see a change in and a reduction of their support for these groups. I mean, this is, of course…a very paradoxical situation where Pakistan is taking great losses. They have fought very hard against these groups, but they’ve done so… only selectively.”
I am sure the good general is familiar with ‘paradoxical’ policies aimed at selectivity given US policies in, say, the Middle East? The US-backed forces have fought alongside Iran to combat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. But in Yemen, the US has been helping their proxies repel the Iranian-backed Houthis.
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