Personally, I question this move by this particular President. While I fully agree and feel relieved to get out from another of the world’s hellholes, leaving there with our tail tucked isn’t exactly what I would have in mind.
It is a shame the entire effort was squandered by the President and the leftist agenda on the ROE.
We’ll be back in less than a decade from now, hopefully with a much better defined objective. As the middle east continues to escalate in hostilities with the world, this is very far from the end of the war.
We’ll be back in less than a decade from now, hopefully with a much better defined objective.
These wars are not about our freedom or our safety. They are about corporatism.
Without a bilateral security agreement (BSA) in place, the legal status of U.S. troops in Afghanistan is up in the air and they could potentially be subject to criminal prosecution. One key purpose of the BSA is to formally document the legal status of U.S. military personnel and certify that they are subject to the Uniform Code of Military Conduct under U.S. law rather than the laws of Afghanistan.
Now I would assume that most Pentagon brass today and the entire administration doesn't give a rat's @ss about the troops on the ground, but it gets a bit dicey if the government of Afghanistan issues an arrest warrant sometime down the road against senior U.S. military (or civilian) officials for alleged crimes, atrocities, etc. by the U.S. military. That's the sort of thing that would have enough credibility to keep these people from traveling to third-party countries where the police might actually act on the warrant.
“We’ll be back in less than a decade from now”
After there’s another smoking crater in a blue city.