Posted on 12/20/2018 5:57:31 PM PST by springwater13
The Trump administration is withdrawing roughly 7,000 troops from Afghanistan in the coming months, two defense officials said Thursday, around half of what the American military has there now.
Mr. Trump made the decision at the same time he decided he was pulling American forces out of Syria, one official said. The move is likely one of the first steps to end the United States’ involvement in the 17-year-old war.
The 14,000 American troops currently in Afghanistan are divided between training and advising Afghan forces and a counterterror mission against groups like the Islamic State and Al Qaeda. The reduction, one official said, is in an effort to make Afghan forces more reliant on their own troops and not Western support.
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9/11 was hatched there.
So, you think that we should fight wars to keep equipment exercised and the troops trained? Excuse my ignorance but I think that is probably one of the most stupid things I have ever read. The military doesn’t have to fight endless wars to stay trained and ready. I seem to remember that Desert Storm went OK with mostly “untrained” troops and “idle” equipment. Where do you get troop strength cuts? In case you missed it, President Trump has increased the size of the military the past couple of years.
And suddenly, the Democrats want to keep troops in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan...
More great news, never Trumper’s are very sad!
Yea and most of them doing things we have no business being involved in.
You can’t hold the nation with 14,000 troops. The Afgan’s need to defend their own nation.
Neo-Con double-talk! Lets keep our troops in harms way so they can be battle tested when the real war starts!
Gee, here is a thought, how about the Afgans fighting their own battles.
Trump put more troops there and we are worse off. What’s the answer?
It’s not easy to understand this withdrawal for many.....we know it’s not all troops. We also know our southern border needs protection.....and I believe soon our northern border as well.
I say this because of the status of how nation leaders are in motion on the world stage overall. There is great uncertainty how everything is going to ‘settle’ down..if it does...or if things continue to escalate.
Additionally as a Christian we’ve known for sometime of the shifting of nations, though unsettled yet, still they are in a state of motion so one cannot help but wondering if God isn’t in many respects ‘protecting’ us or preparing us to be protected.
Scripture is not specific listing our country in any of the events foretold.....the best any have done is speculate. So I’m not certain just how to look at our troops being shifted about.......everythings changed or in process of change....from NKorea, to China ...Russia and the EU...and we continue to see these shifts.
The US military was never so well equipped and endowed and effective as it was in the 100 hour war of Desert Storm. That was an army that hadn’t fought for years. Likewise the military that stunned and destroyed the Taliban in late 2001 was a well rested military with little direct “experience.”
If it is time to go, then fine, leave the worn out vehicles and get on the bus. There will be new strykers and tanks waiting at Ft Hood or Carson or Knox or...
I don’t think it was simply a political move. Something big is in the works.
Let’s get the wall done before next christmas.
Red China will take Africa; they have over a billion people, and can make a permanent commitment to sending reinforcements to Africa. European colonizers couldn’t do that.
I have no problem with Red China running Africa as a colony; since we already do business with them, this will simply broaden the scope of that business.
Sounds pretty accurate to me.
Don’t underestimate our strategic airstrike packages. They are accurate and lethal.
We also will be maintaining major Drone assets as well as carrier capability throughout the mideast.
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