GET THE HELL OUT!! What are we doing there?
Amen.
Sangin Police Commander:...... “I have casualties lying around me; we haven’t eaten for two days.”....... “running out of ammunition”........”We only have the police HQ’S under our control and have a battalion of the national army with us. The district office and the intelligence directorate are under enemy control.”
At least 90 Afghan soldiers have been killed in recent fighting...........The fact that a senior Afghan official is addressing the president on Facebook reflects significant internal divisions within the administration,
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35147262
The sad fact is if we leave then we are finished as a player in Asia. Afghanistan will fall to the Taliban, they will form a partnership with ISIS, and then they will make a move on Pakistan.
The sadder fact is if we stay we will NEVER pacify the place, even with a Trump/Cruz running the show. It will be money suck and a killing field for our soldiers.
Preventing a nation-state from falling into the hands of the Taliban, lest it become a staging area for God knows what.
Pretty soon half the demented actors over there are going to be able to put their hands on some pretty big ballistic hardware .... want them to be able to deploy it without molestation, as Saddam did when he was rocketing Tel Aviv?
One of those will eventually have a "yield", in kilotons.
Every day Obama works for Islam, to weaken us in the face of regional powers and delay our own projects. The US arsenal is now about 1/4 what it was when Bush 41 left office.
Pretty soon we'll be down to parity with the Chinese and in deficit to the Russians. Then what, when the president of 1.4 billion Chinese starts telling us how things are going to be? But Obama lives for that.