Former National Security Advisor of the United States (US) President, HR McMaster, on November 22 criticized recent announcement on reduction of American security troop’s presence in Afghanistan calling the plan “abhorrent.”, reports Tolo News. HR McMaster, in an interview, further said that the Trump administration is handing the Taliban a victory by withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, McMaster said, “If the Taliban establishes control of large parts of Afghanistan, gives safe haven and support base to terrorist organizations who want to commit mass murder against us on the scale of 9/11, we will be far less safe and vulnerable to these groups,” he said. “And I think what happened is the prioritization of withdrawal over our interests led to us actually empowering the Taliban.”