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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Rush: (paraphrased) Global warming has gotten really bad in AaahGaaahnistaahhn
But will our troops be forced to look the other way when the Afghan commanders decide to rape little boys?
Somehow I suspected President Obama would leave the troops there until he left office. After his surrender to Iran, and Libya,Yemen,Syria,Iraq where he screwed the pooch royally, he did not want another failed state in his loss column while he is in the oval office. Instead, he will kick this can down the road so that his failure in Afghanistan may be slipped into the next guy’s column.Officially coming up on his last year in office Obama has switched from blame the last guy mode to blame the next guy mode for all his failures.
Just so it doesn’t effect his poll numbers.
The HuffPo article is very “useful”. It begins by saying that the Administration’s new argument is that staying means things are going well, and repeating the old saw that “there is no military solution”.
Back in 2004, I remember on the Swift Boat Vets site one of the vets saying of John Kerry “My God, even Stephen Seagall doesn’t have the stones to lie like that.”
It seems we can add most of the (other) members of this administration to that.
The HuffPo article is very “useful”. It begins by saying that the Administration’s new argument is that staying means things are going well, and repeating the old saw that “there is no military solution”.
Back in 2004, I remember on the Swift Boat Vets site one of the vets saying of John Kerry “My God, even Stephen Seagall doesn’t have the stones to lie like that.”
It seems we can add most of the (other) members of this administration to that.
Oops! How did that double post? I double clicked?
“Officially coming up on his last year in office Obama has switched from blame the last guy mode to blame the next guy mode for all his failures.”
+1
Hey Mikey Rosenberg, will barack be reporting for duty?
Zero’s just another politician who doesn’t keep his promises. Bummed but not at all surprise.
Hello, the Nobel Peace Prize Board is calling on the red phone, they want the Prize back.....
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