{"id":253971,"date":"2016-07-05T07:51:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T07:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mccain-warns-against-us-troop-cuts-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2016-07-05T07:51:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T07:51:41","slug":"mccain-warns-against-us-troop-cuts-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mccain-warns-against-us-troop-cuts-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain warns against US troop cuts in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"84\">\n<p><strong>US Republican Senator John McCain has warned against reducing the current level of American troops in Afghanistan, saying that more cuts will lead to another \u201cnightmare.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>McCain, who is on a rare Middle East tour, made the remarks after visiting NATO troops in the Afghan capital city of Kabul on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe strongly that we need 9,800 here and further reductions would then cause a replay of the Iraq nightmare that was caused when we totally withdrew from Iraq, which created al-Qaida, which then created ISIS,\u201d McCain said, using another name for the Daesh terrorist group.<\/p>\n<p>US President Barack Obama is reportedly reviewing his last year decision to keep 9,800 troops in Afghanistan through 2016 and slash them to 5,500 in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>McCain said Obama should decide on troop levels \u201csooner rather than later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee also blasted the Obama administration for restricting rules of engagement for American&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/07\/05\/473662\/Daesh-Afghanistan-Taliban-McCain-Graham\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Republican Senator John McCain has warned against reducing the current level of American troops in Afghanistan, saying that more cuts will lead to another \u201cnightmare.\u201d McCain, who is on a rare Middle East tour, made the remarks after visiting NATO troops in the Afghan capital city of Kabul on Monday. \u201cWe believe strongly that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-253971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}