For five full years, through his campaign for President into his term in the White House, Donald Trump said often he wanted American troops to leave Afghanistan. Finally, in his last months in office, Trump seemed ready to act on this. He told aides he was going to pull the troops out.
Then, on June 26 of last year, The New York Times stopped him from doing that. The Times ran a story saying that the American intelligence community had “concluded that a Russian military intelligence unit…