“”” prohibiting the expenditure of monies to reduce the number of U.S. troops deployed in Afghanistan below 8,000 “””
It costs money to REDUCE the troop levels overseas?
“It costs money to REDUCE the troop levels overseas?”
Not really, if you made the soldiers buy their own tickets back home it would be mostly free.
But if we pay their way along with the tanks, vehicles, aircraft, support equipment and everything else it takes to make an Army, then yes it will cost to bring them home.
But there is a net savings. It will be cheaper to bring them home than fight the war from now until Hell freezes over.
I never understood the reasoning for invading that country to begin with. It was a Bush plan to keep the military industrial complex alive and well, nothing more. Low and behold, Lez Cheney, a bud of Bush, wants to keep it going. Gotta be a pay off somewhere in there.