Posted on 12/20/2018 5:10:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
About half of the 14,000 U.S. forces will return home in the coming weeks, the start of a total pullout that could take at least many months
A day after a contested decision to pull American military forces from Syria, officials said Thursday that President Trump has ordered the start of a reduction of American forces in Afghanistan.
More than 7,000 American troops will begin to return home from Afghanistan in the coming weeks, a U.S. official said. The move will come as the first stage of a phased drawdown and the start of a conclusion to the 17-year war that officials say could take at least many months....
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“I think Trump has looked it over, and has decided that his predecessors have FUBAR’d the mission so badly, there’s nothing left to do but get our people out of there”.
I agree. And he’s not going to lose another drop of American blood if he can help it.
I’d say ~90% of those who oppose this pull out are Deep State in one way or another.
Make America Great Again! Woo! Hoo!
Nothing wrong with going in after Al Queda and punishing the Taliban, but not forever. Syria and Afghan are places you’d like to control and it’s hard to let go but once you do natural forces will make it the Russians or somebody else’s next quagmire.
It’s awful.
Thanks for your service.
About damn time. They don’t care if we’re there or not. As soon as we leave they’ll go back to the same crap as before. They don’t want to progress.
That’s not the half of it...
You always knew the night because the little boys had bells on their feet to identify them. It was Evil incarnate. They were raped by the goat$%###$ without anything we could say or do, otherwise the elders would pull support and ghost.
We should have gutted everyone of them, none of them are worth saving, the society is devoid of cultural values... I’d rather spare everyone the pain and focus on giving them the opportunity to meet their maker.
It was just sickening.
“About damn time..17 years, how many American lives have been lost in that sh*thole..bring our troops home!”
Sarah, I just wrote privately to 2DV, that in my opinion we haven’t been in a worthy and just war that was in our country’s interest since WWII! This nation’s wars since the end of WWII, have accomplished zip, nada zilch, except in that they have been the huge multiplier on our national debt, to say nothing of the multiple human tragedies in the unnecessary deaths of our young men and women! Next time we go to war, the youngsters of our elected officials need to be the first one’s off the landing craft. Maybe that would bring some sorely needed sanity!
After W took Iraq, we had a huge force there and should have used it to reduce Assad and the Iranians. Instead we put our tanks in garages and hunkered down under Islamic and Democrat attacks. We no longer have the forces there to topple the enemy regimes on the ground. How can we win in Syria when Assad and the Russians run the country and we’re just fighting insurgents? If ISIS comes back, go back in.
It is very sickening. Thanks for your service.
Not me, my friend. But he served very well.
Now we know where money is coming from to build the wall !!!
We can pretty well predict that Lindsey Graham is already having a conniption about this. He just about soiled his panties when he heard that Trump was pulling our troops out of Syria.
bring them home. they will help to build the wall!
“I believe that the Kurds should ally with Assad and fight the Turks. “
Fine! Then let them do it with their own blood and treasure, not ours! In the final analysis, this part of the world is never going to be anything more than a Muslim $hit hole, so why we need to participate is a mystery to me. Give them arms, but not one of our boots on their soil ever again!
Bless President Trump.
BLESS OUR TROOPS!
Woops.
Oh sorry I thought you answered me. Yes thanks to those who served.
To the post about wars after WWII, keep in mind we had to fight foreign enemies and Democrat traitors.
Yep, I saw him for a minute and he wasn’t happy. On the other hand, Rand Paul is tickled.
We need to fight China, doubtful we can do that from Afghan and Syria.
No problem. I get mixed up trying to follow a thread sometimes.
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