Come on. Fess up. Which one of you actually believed them when told we’d pull out entirely?
America and Afghanistan are close to signing a strategic pact which would allow thousands of United States troops to remain in the country until at least 2024, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
The agreement would allow not only military trainers to stay to build up the Afghan army and police, but also American special forces soldiers and air power to remain.
The prospect of such a deal has already been met with anger among Afghanistan’s neighbours including, publicly, Iran and, privately, Pakistan. It also risks being rejected by the Taliban and derailing any attempt to coax them to the negotiating table, according to one senior member of Hamid Karzai’s peace council. A withdrawal of American troops has already begun following an agreement to hand over security for the country to Kabul by the end of 2014.
But Afghans wary of being abandoned are keen to lock America into a longer partnership after the deadline. Many analysts also believe the American military would like to retain a presence close to Pakistan, Iran and China.
#2 It’s coming from our Social Security.
Thank you #9. That was awesome!
I do miss Freddy.
This might have been prevented if Warbomber’s dad had pulled out. (Or George HW for that matter)
# 16 DaveLG said, “Pakistan is no small, backward country”
I’ve lived and worked there and, well, it’s not a tiny country, a little bigger than Texas but much of it is uninhabitable. But they ARE backward. Yes, ahead of Afghanistan but well behind Iraq. The only reason they are a concern at all is because they got that durned nuke thing going on.
Still, it’s assumed they only have about 50 functioning devices and about that many more slowly leaking rads. I’d suggest we put all our SEALs and other Special Forces on a major raid to end the Paki’s nuke capability and then stop funding them. They’ll rot away to nothing in a decade.
Yeah, we catch some flak from China. Not much. They’d be secretly pleased. India would certainly be happy and that converts 1/4 of the world’s population into fans of America! Don;t believe me? Just call any help line phone number and ask the people in Mumbai.
Osama figured it out. The only way to make us go away was to entice us to ruin our own economy. He’s dead now but he won his war. We’re toast. Just hasn’t played itself out yet. Keep them money pre$$e$ rollin’
A stupendous mega-depression is unavoidable now. Nobody knows how to make anything from scratch anymore. The trucks that used to bring milk & bread won’t show up. Remember that nice grocery store we used to have?
No more utilities. Water, natural gas, electricity. Nobody will know how to keep themselves alive through the winter. ”Have a nice day.” Dumb-basses.
#29 You should celebrate!
I thought you liked that tax payers subsidize the protection of the oil fields for the oil companies? Wassamatter with you?
Also, don’t you like that the military is a GOP endorsed jobs program? Oh and think of all the government issued underwear and socks these boys are gonna need in that heat!
How about we just do orderly withdrawals of troops in the order they were sent? Start with Germany and Japan, then Okinawa and North Korea, and work our way through the list. We can skip over places like Australia that are OK with it, if we think it’s worth the trouble. Then we’ll be out of Afghanistan within 60 years, after the troops come home from Iraq, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo.
#28 The money is almost all gone. Don’t let anyone kid you about this. When our money is worthless the US is just an unusually large 3rd world nation. Our military will vanish like a drop of water on a red hot sheet of steel.
War is a racket. Bipartisan agreement says continue the racket, win-win.
Oh oh. Looks like Libya is just about over. Syria next? Except the Syrian rebels have specifically claimed they do NOT want any international “assistance”. Who’s next? Iran? Pakistan? NKorea? That Peace Prize isn’t going to polish itself! Come on people, more blood!
Great job Pres Obama winning Libya without a single American casualty! Add that to victory in the Pirate war makes that 2-0 advantage, Obama.
Compare that to the Teabagger trillion dollar Iraq shithole not including the thousands of American soldiers lives in the process.
I’m thinking Yemen needs to get an ass whoop’n by NATO right now. A united front works.
#47 I see you’re still thinking about the flea article. Those stripped down naked firemen that had to get hosed down in sudsy water by the hospital to remove their fleas. I can see why!
Oh sh*t! Nobody cares about a lot of goat farmers. Ultimately, it’s got to be about Afghanistan’s mineral wealth. Not oil, as with the middle east countries. But other rare earths, left untapped in those mountains. And the Afghans aren’t equipped to do their own mining. So foreign “advisers” will see to it that imported contractors do. And a lot of dodgy bookkeeping, with manage to lose much of that wealth. How many military brass plan getting rich, off this country?
#50 well, I looked back at my three succinct points on #46 .
Note that points 1&2 are factual and warrants due praise for our commander in chief. Point number 3 is a logical place to redeploy the proven NATO assets in the area with UN approval.
Again, you are unable to dispute the facts nor provide logical conclusion (as I wisely have) and hence you resort to sheeple rhetoric with Freudian insert of your inner homo.
Stop polluting Internet traffic with sheeple packets unless you own stock in Cisco.
>Great job Pres Obama winning Libya without a single American casualty! Add that to victory in the Pirate war makes that 2-0 advantage, Obama.
Don’t forget Osama!
That gives Obama credit for destroying many liberal arguments over the decades, and showing that Republicans were right. The War Powers Act is now a dead letter. The idea of trials for terrorists, gone, unless liberals want to say Bush did it right with Saddam and Obama got it wrong. Killing pirates on site, woohoo!
#52 Good point. Our president did take down the top fugitive in the world with bold decision making. That makes 3-0. Yes, Osama dd have a trial and convicted in abstentia (he couldn’t make it).
#53 Stop talking yourself. Note we’re laughing at you, not with you.
With over a $1000000000 in debt, its not viable to have a military presence in Afghanistan.