Posted on 10/15/2015 6:22:19 AM PDT by EBH
The United States will halt its military withdrawal from Afghanistan and instead keep thousands of troops in the country through the end of President Obama’s term in 2017, Mr. Obama will announce on Thursday, prolonging the American role in a war that has now stretched on for 14 years.
The current American force in Afghanistan of 9,800 troops will remain in place through most of 2016 under the Obama administration’s revised plans, before dropping to about 5,500 at the end of next year or in early 2017, senior administration officials said.
Some of the troops will continue to train and advise Afghan forces, while others will carry on the search for Qaeda fighters and militants from the Islamic State and other groups who have found a haven in Afghanistan, they said.
In abandoning his ambition to bring home almost all American troops before leaving office, Mr. Obama appears to be acknowledging that Afghan security forces are still not near ready to hold off the Taliban on their own.
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Why does he pronounce it Tollybon?
The only one running that would take the fight to the enemy and then get the hell out of the Middle Eastern hell-hole is Donald Trump. The rest would have us in Afganistan till hell freezes over, especially neocon Rubio.
It is all about him.
He has no concept of American loyalty or citizenship.
Since he has demonstrated time-and-again that he has absolutely no idea what he is doing, he would delegate all such decisions to the military itself, if he had any love for this country ....
OK. Well then, that answers that.
Why do I think that the only reason Obama will stay in Afghanistan is to avoid taking blame for what will happen if he orders the US out, or that he has his hand in the Opium trade and still needs a bigger cut?
I guess I shouldn’t speculate like that.
Was listening to Mr. Obama’s nose grow a bit longer while trying to reboot the computer. Maybe that computer was trying to tell me something. :)
Traitorous POS won’t give them what they need to win in the “Graveyard of Empires”.
Nail, Coffin; 1 each.
Because the tolly me bananas
Putin wants the United States to go broke in that hellhole? Just like the Russians did...
I’m sickened we’re going to be throwing US lives and treasure down that rathole. Nothing there for us. Absolutely nothing.
>>the only reason Obama will stay in Afghanistan
Maybe Comrade Chairman Flex-O-Bumble is providing his homosexual appointees with a forum in which they can do the most damage to what’s left of American moral character?
So, I understand the JV Team (ISIS) has been showing up in big number in Affeeganeestan.
>>Putin wants the United States to go broke in that hellhole? Just like the Russians did...
And Comrade Chairman Flex-O-Bumble is a strategic ASSet, after all.
He’s either deliberately confused or a total klutz.
Good question.
Because that’s how the Tollybon pronounce it.
You’re right - it’s weird - either way...
It along with Iraq, Iran, Syria and North Korea.
Cause he is a dufus.
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