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Five things to know about Trump’s get-out-of-Afghanistan plan

By Jamie McIntyre
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Five things to know about Trump’s get-out-of-Afghanistan plan

LONG, WINDY, BUMPY ROAD: Though hailed as a historic breakthrough, the Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan signed by the U.S. and Taliban leaders in Doha Saturday is a basically an agreement to try to reach a peace deal in the future and gives both sides plenty of room to wriggle out of it.

“This is going to be a long, windy, bumpy road. There will be ups and downs and we’ll stop and start,” Defense Secretary Mark Esper told reporters yesterday “That’s going to be the nature of this over the next days, weeks and months.”

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