We have no interests there.
If the training camps pop up again, send B-1b's.
Good ol’ ap. Any other time headline would read...Obama, not US military.
Drop nukes on Peshawar and Quetta then leave for good. No more supplies will be coming in to the jihadi baddies.
Keeping “allied” army bases open for the purposes of doling out paychecks and raping boys isn’t a very compelling reason for a U.S. troop deployment.
Well looks like the administration can just keep ignoring the rape of young boys for a few more years...
I’ll bet you dollars to donuts that they didn’t do a military wide poll. If they did I’m sure the results would be way different!
Read some of her statements before Congress in the article. This is a woman who understands Putin. Far better than the clueless CnC. Russia will continue it’s aggression because there is no one there to stop them. This bombing just after talking with Obama is a big FU to America.
Folks, they aren’t there to bomb just ISIS. The Russians will be bombing anyone and everyone who is against Assad and that includes our allies such as the Kurds and the few moderate groups that actually want liberal democracy. The Ruskies want to prop up their guy, that is all they care about. It’s bad enough to have our “allie” the Turks in there bombing not only ISIS but the Kurds, now we’ll have the Ruskies. This situation is growing more complicated and worse the farther we go along because America is not leading, it is sticking it’s head in the sand. That is probably what she saw and she could take no more.
The answer is not to take our toys and go home. The answer is for America to lead with a coherent foreign policy and to get serious about this ongoing mess that is the middle east.
Active Duty ping.
. . .The surveys verified all the major Soviet finds. Afghanistan may hold 60 million tons of copper, 2.2 billion tons of iron ore, 1.4 million tons of rare earth elements such as lanthanum, cerium and neodymium, and lodes of aluminum, gold, silver, zinc, mercury and lithium. For instance, the Khanneshin carbonatite deposit in Afghanistan's Helmand province is valued at $89 billion, full as it is with rare earth elements. . .
. . .In 2010, the USGS data attracted the attention of the U.S. Department of Defense's Task Force for Business and Stability Operations (TFBSO), which is entrusted with rebuilding Afghanistan. The task force valued Afghanistan's mineral resources at $908 billion, while the Afghan government's estimate is $3 trillion.
http://www.livescience.com/47682-rare-earth-minerals-found-under-afghanistan.html