Tuesday, May 27, 2014

2014 wasn't good enough


Now, according to President Obama, we have to wait until 2016 to completely withdraw all troops from Shitholeistan.
President Obama said on Tuesday that he planned to withdraw the last combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2016, declaring that “it’s time to turn the page on a decade in which so much of our foreign policy was focused on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.”

Under the plan, outlined by Mr. Obama in the Rose Garden, the United States would leave 9,800 troops in Afghanistan after 2014, but cut that number by half in 2015. By the end of 2016, it would keep only a vestigial force to protect the embassy in Kabul and help the Afghans with military purchases and other security matters.

Mr. Obama said the withdrawal of combat troops from Afghanistan would free up military resources for the United States to focus on an emerging set of terrorism threats in the Middle East and North Africa — a strategy he plans to articulate in a commencement address on Wednesday at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

“Americans have learned that it’s harder to end wars than it is to begin them,” he said. “Yet this is how wars end in the 21st century.”
Two years is an awful long time to give a bunch of brass plated peckerwoods a new reason to stay beyond 2016. Too long, actually.

// posted by montag @ 4:37 PM
Comments:
One of the low points of my day was reading that today. Two more years of costs and deaths....and I don't believe it will change a single thing for the better.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 6:40 PM
 

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