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Trump's new Pentagon sets up clash over Afghanistan pullout
Any move to accelerate withdrawals would set up a clash with the nation’s top
generals and other civilians.
By LARA SELIGMAN and NATASHA BERTRAND 11/11/2020 05:58 PM EST
トランプは国防長官とペンタゴンの上層部をトランプ忠誠者に置き換えたが、この結果
アフガニスタンからの早期引き上げなどを巡って、米軍トップの将軍達他と衝突の恐れ
President Donald Trump’s decapitation strike on the Pentagon this week is raising
fears that the U.S. will accelerate the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan,
putting newly installed leaders on a collision course with top generals and others
who are urging a more deliberate drawdown.
Current and former administration officials say Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark
Esper Monday in part over his opposition to accelerating troop drawdowns worldwide,
and especially in Afghanistan. The upheaval accelerated on Tuesday with the
resignation of three high-level civilians and the installation of loyalists who are
expected to ram through Trump's agenda, and continued on Wednesday when retired Army
Col. Douglas Macgregor, an outspoken critic of the war in Afghanistan, was brought
on as senior adviser to new acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller.
トランプが Esper国防長官を解任した理由の一つは、トランプの望む世界各国からの米兵の
引き上げを加速することにEsperが反対したため。そのために国防長官解任後にペンタゴン
高官の辞任が続き、トランプはそれらにトランプ忠誠者を後任とした。水曜日にアフガニス
タンの批判で名高いDouglas Macgregorをアドバイザーにした。
“A precipitous and what appears to be near total withdrawal of U.S. forces from
Afghanistan ? not on a conditions-based approach advocated by our military, political
and intelligence leadership but rather on an old campaign promise by President