Obama to Announce Plans to Seek to Leave 9,800 US Troops in Afghanistan (Live 2:45 p.m. EDT)

Reuters ^ | Tuesday, May 27, 2014 | Steve Holland

[kristinn]

U.S. President Barack Obama will announce plans on Tuesday to seek to leave 9,800 U.S. troops in Afghanistan after the end of this year, a senior administration official said.

[thegrump]

If you draw down your troops to a certain level don’t they all become more vulnerable?

Precisely! He will place impossible rules of engagement on these troops leaving them essentially as targets for Islamist entertainment.

[Steve_Seattle]

As usual, he made no gesture to Bush, gave no indication that the war was a two-administration effort. It was all about him. In fact, there was even an indirect dig at Bush when he referenced troop levels when he took office (high) and what they are now (low). He is the most ungracious president in my lifetime.

[A Navy Vet]

Sheesus christ! Really? Leave almost 10,000 there to be killed and dis-membered from the reconstituted Taliban. Then there is Iraq with it's al-queda types making a mess of a once liberated nation. Sorry, but Arab Muslims don't know how to govern themselves. They're culture is unable to learn what freedom is. It's all about their tribes.

I said it way back in 2001 when Bush decided to invade Aftganiscrap and then Iraq that we should just NUKE them - collateral damage be damned. That's how we won WWII.

Sorry, have little compassion for the women and children, especially after having learned through much studies (I could write a term paper on this subject) they readily accept such hateful teachings. Ever seen the documentary, "Children of Gaza". Good luck finding it - it's been scrubbed from many search engines. Reason, the person who started the study in Gaza to support the poor children of Gaza found that many of them were gophers for the terrorists because of anti-Israel/anti-western teachings from kindergarten on up. Their parents supported them then and still do.

Any wonder why Israel cannot come to terms with the so-called Palestinian Authorities, or their more radical Hamas? Sheesh, way back the Palis were given about 97% of their demands at the Camp David Peace Accords. But no, Arafat (Nobel Peace Prize winner) wanted all. When he didn't get it, he called for an intifada which killed countless innocent Jews in buses, cafes, weddings, town squares, etc. Then Israel got smart and built a wall and started profiling those they would let enter. Oh no! Discrimination! But it works to this day.

This a war of ideology/theology - a war of cultures, not unlike Nazi Germany. They also believed to be superior as most Muslims believe. Hell, they even had a pact with Hitler. If we want to win it, then we have to take horrific measures, but no power in the world other than Israel has the balls. And it's becoming increasing clear that even Israel is hesitant.

I say kill them all!, and let people live in peace. Let God sort them out.

[WayneS]

He has no need to dissolve them; they don’t do anything without his approval anyway...

[WayneS]

They had zero - but they SHOULD have had about 30...

[Candor7]

Get all of our soldiers out of that Hell Hole. Obama has yet again snatched defeat from the jaws of victory and not one more death of a soldier is justified , with the treasonous Obama in charge.