Trump still continues implementing order with the current target at retrieving troops from Afghanistan, Iraq

Incumbent President Donald Trump is making efforts to do as much as possible in his time in the White House and the recent one comes as Trump presses to order troop cuts in Afghanistan and Iraq by January 15 next year.

Trump is reportedly poised to order drawing down troops from both the countries and cut down by 2,500. This is being done to complete his pledge of exiting the endless war that is taking place in each of these countries. Many believe that the war is a result of the US involvement while other sections of people believe that it is in fact, the US who is controlling the situation.

It was reported on Monday by the CNN, that the United States central command has received a formal order in which it was stated that there are nearly 4,500 troops in Afghanistan and close to 3,000 in Iraq and it plans to draw all of them at once.

Pentagon officials however, did not comment on this step officiated by Donald Trump especially given the fact that it comes just five days prior to President-elect Joe Biden taking over the White House. Some might favour the order but Senate Mitch McConnel is opposed of this idea as he says, “The consequences of a premature American exit” from Afghanistan “would likely be even worse than President Obama’s withdrawal from Iraq back in 2011, which fueled the rise of ISIS and a new round of global terrorism.”

McConnel is known for sticking by decisions made by Trump and is known a strong ally of his but this time he said that congress will not be okay with the idea of leaving the conflict zone without any result. The Kentucky republican added that the Assembly will not accept ‘simply walking away’ in this matter.

This has come after Trump had earlier fired Mark Esper, his Defense Secretary and a few other top officials and replaced them with loyalists last week. As per a report in the Washington Post, Trump was unhappy with Esper sending a memo to the White House about unreliable drawing of troops from Afghanistan.

In Kabul, however, acting Defense Minister Asadullah Khalid spoke in the Afghan parliament where he completely refused that US troops leaving Afghan land will do any bad for the country. “I don’t see any clear indication that the US or NATO forces will fully withdraw the country. Some other countries in NATO are still considering whether to remain or leave.”

He further added that as far as the operations in Afghanistan is considered, it was the Afghan forces responsible for 96 percent of them while only four percent were controlled by foreign support.

In Iraq too, the parliament had voted in favour of US troops making an exit form the country, especially after the US killed Qassem Soleimani who was a powerful personality in the gulf country and was also an Iranian general dealing with his country’s foreign military operations, at Baghdad’s airport.