Is there any good reason for the US to wait until next year to pull out? Will the death and maiming of more Americans change things if Afghanistan or make the world safer?
get em out now
He wants to get past the midterms before the thing completely collapses.
Yes. The elections.
New Zealand has lost nearly 10% of the troops they sent. Gotta wonder what it would be like if we had lost that many. We’re there to protect Karzi’s brother’s poppy trade. I had two son-in-laws serve there. One got the hell blown out of him but managed to survive. Zero is so fond of killing people with drones, let’s get our kids out of there and he can play “Zero drone wars” all he wants. Macho man he is! If George had done that the outcry from the MSM would have been unbelievable.