‘WE DON’T NEED TO LIKE THEM’: Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, the head of the U.S. Central Command told Congress yesterday that he’ll be carefully tracking the actions of the Taliban as the United States withdraws roughly 3,400 troops from Afghanistan in the coming months and will recommend ending the drawdown if he doesn’t like what he sees.

“We’re going to go to 8,600 by the summer. Conditions on the ground will dictate if we go below that,” McKenzie testified before the House Armed Services Committee. “If conditions on the ground are not permissive, my advice would be not to continue that reduction.”