THE BURNED OVER DISTRICT

Is still waiting for his condemnation papers. Whoever the poor soul may be, we won't know for another 10 years, at least. The Colony of Shitholeistan and our Imperial envoy have signed the papers pushing that honor out to sometime in the future. Needless to say, high officials in the Imperial War Ministry are doing a happy dance for reasons that must be Top Secret because no public explanation makes any sense.

At a ceremony in the capital, Kabul, U.S. Ambassador James Cunningham and Afghanistan’s newly appointed national security adviser Mohmmad Hanif Atmar signed the document.

There are currently about 41,000 NATO troops in Afghanistan, down from a peak of 130,000 in 2012. Most will leave after the international military force formally ends its combat mission at the end of 2014.

Under the terms of the agreement, troops from Germany, Italy and other NATO members will join a remaining force of 9,800 U.S. soldiers, bringing numbers up to about 12,500. The foreign troops will be tasked with training and assisting Afghanistan's security forces maintain stability.

Observers express fears that, in the absence of stronger international forces, the Taliban will overpower Afghanistan’s new government. The group already claims responsibility for routine attacks and suicide bombings.

The timetable for the remaining soldiers’ full withdrawal remains unclear.

And anyone whi thinks there will be a full withdrawal probably still thinks Eisenhower will get us out of Korea.

Afghanistan, nicknamed the "graveyard of empires" for its history of resisting colonization, from Alexander the Great to the Soviet Union, has had U.S. troops on its soil since October 2001, in response to the Sept. 11 attacks.

Al-Qaeda had found refuge in the Taliban-ruled country. After U.S. and NATO forces managed to push Al-Qaeda's leadership into hiding or Pakistan, their job became one of battling back the Taliban, training Afghan troops and pouring money into the development of the country, one of the poorest in the world.

All of which failed miserably after 13 years of very expensive effort.