Following Donald Trump's surprise win on Wednesday in the U.S presidential election race, New York's prestigious Baruch College held a post-election discussion where the institute's president Mitchel B. Wallerstein noted the possibility of a Trump administration bringing in more troops to Afghanistan.
In answer to a question on Trump's stance on Afghanistan, Wallerstein said: "The question of what happens, as the Taliban continue to be resurgent, and whether the Trump administration will be prepared to put additional U.S forces back to Afghanistan, my guess is that they would.
He went on to say however that in the event of this happening the Afghan war would then become "effectively an endless war instead of looking for some sort of internal political solution to the conflict. So I think these are very significant questions."
In turn however, Carla Anne Robbins, who was also on the discussion panel, said Trump's stance remains unclear. Robbins is an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and a faculty director of the Master of International Affairs program and clinical professor of national security studies at Baruch College's Marxe School of Public and International Affairs.
"I don't see this is a guy who is going to be willing to broker any sort of negotiation with the Taliban but at the same time he wants to bring the troops home so that is a great puzzle," she said.
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