Obama pledges to end Afghanistan war at year’s end

Associated Press ^ | May 25, 2014 2:04 PM EDT

[Olog-hai]

President Barack Obama is promising U.S. forces in Afghanistan that America’s longest war will come to a close at the end of the year.

The president made a surprise visit Sunday to Bagram Air Field to celebrate the Memorial Day holiday weekend with troops.

He says the war is at a pivotal moment, with Afghan forces taking over primary responsibility for the security of their country. …

[ronnie raygun]

His legacy........Erecting the fasade of lies and unaccomplishments, this he's good at!

[silverleaf]

how many in our government and in world government have been corrupted by the money generated by those murderous crops?

if the agency wanted to put terrorism out of business by screwing up the heroin trade, they would have done so by now

[ThePatriotsFlag]

His way of saying thank you, for their ultimate service, to dead veterans on Memorial Day. This man is totally amazing.

[hal ogen]

Clown Prince nobama’s photo-op trip costs many many millions. Just how many left-to-die-through-neglect Veterans could have been treated for that money? nobama is a degenerate, anti-Free-America poofer who despises Veterans.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I'm not agreeing to anything. I'm admitting he can do anything he wants, and there's nothing we can do to stop him.

If you can stop him, WTF are you waiting for?

[Olog-hai]

Agreeing to it won’t help matters either.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

So why aren't you doing something about it, instead of sitting there with your thumb up your wazoo aperture?

You obviously know how to fix it, yet you won't.

[Olog-hai]

Take a look back further in the thread. Sun Tzu, the author of The Art Of War, was of the mind that generals should exercise autonomy in this sphere of foreign policy when the chief executive of the country fails in this regard. These days, our generals are more like politicians than fighting men.

I cannot tell if you are looking at things from a Biblical perspective here. One who does would recognize the curses coming on the USA for its moral depravity. There is only one help, that being from God; and if you're looking to mankind to fix the problems, take a look at Jeremiah 17:5.