And so this endless, pointless bloodletting, with no goal and impossible rules of engagement, draining untold trillions from the U.S. economy and costing countless lives, will continue. Apparently the Afghan military and police will need the U.S. troops for target practice beyond the original departure date.
“US signals likely delay in troop pullout from Afghanistan,” AFP, February 21, 2015 (thanks to C. Cantoni):
President Barack Obama’s new Pentagon chief said Saturday the United States was seriously considering slowing the pace of a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan after talks with Afghan leaders in Kabul.
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter’s comments offered the clearest sign yet that Washington was ready to delay the closure of some bases and retain more troops on the ground after appeals by Afghanistan’s new President Ashraf Ghani and advice from commanders.
To safeguard “hard-won” progress, Obama “is considering a number of options to reinforce our support for President Ghani’s security strategy, including possible changes to the timeline for our drawdown of US troops,” Carter said.
“That could mean taking another look at the timing and sequencing of base closures to ensure we have the right array of coalition capabilities,” he said at a joint news conference with Ghani.
Apart from troop numbers, the United States and its allies would need to make “long-term commitments in resources, equipment and other support” to ensure the success of the Afghan forces, he said….
No Fear says
Better to line up the troops along the US borders and let them do useful protective work.
particolor says
they will do anything now to keep the troops away while they Take Over Your Country !!
Any wonder He wanted all Your Water Pistols !! Don’t give them Up !!
Wellington says
This “delay” was spun as a good thing in the MSM as evidence that the new Afghan government is working so well and also of course, per above, to further guarantee “hard-won” progress.
Ah, what George Orwell could do with this material were he still here.
vlparker says
Just more proof, as if we needed any more, that we are being led by a bunch of idiots. The absolute ignorance of this administration, the Bush administration and the Pentagon of just what the enemy believes and what their aims and goals are is mind boggling. And after decades of islamic jihad they have learned absolutely nothing.
None of these leaders have learned anything from Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War”. Not only do they know nothing about the enemy, they make it a point to make sure that they know nothing about the enemy. OBL is dead. What is the point of continuing to get Americans killed for nothing in Afghanistan?
How could we possibly be so stupid as to think we could bring democracy to Iraq and at the same time guarantee them an islamic sharia constitution? You CANNOT have islam and democracy both. They are exact opposites. We are being led by fools.
Don McKellar says
VERY WELL PUT. 100% CORRECT ON ALL POINTS.
How does it feel to know that you know more about what the problem is and how to fix the problem than ALL of George the Idiot’s men and ALL of Obama the Shady do? You and about 90% of the people who comment on Jihad Watch, that is.
What a mad world we live in. It is the dividing point between the 20th Century and the 21st Century: sure, the leaders of the Free World made mistakes and weren’t always completely above board, and you didn’t always agree with them, but they were, almost always, very competent and capable and not complete liars in the 20th Century. So far in the 21st Century we have complete incompetence, complete corruption, and a world with many, many brushfires — all multiplying and growing, most of which never had to happen in the first place. And to compliment it all, we don’t have the 20th Century journalists and brave investigative reports, but instead the 21st Century has brought us the opposite, so we have little chance of knowing what’s going on unless we seek out facts and truth on places like Jihad Watch.
Bukkdem Jizheads says
You’re absolutely wrong that a democracy cannot exist in a Muslim country. Take a look at Turkey since WWI.
You’re absolutely wrong that Afghanistan should be left to rot. This would be a repetition of what the Clintons did after the Russians were driven out. GHWB had everything in place and on the way to help the Afghans, but he lost. Hillary cancelled it all because “Afghans do not respect human rights.” So, we had a situation much like Libya today, with the Taliban finally triumphing over a dozen other warlords. Tragically, this could have been avoided.
ISIS in Iraq should further convince us all that we must occupy what we’ve won. Obama gutted the secularist Green Revolution in Iran, opened up Egypt and Libya to the Muslim Brotherhood and gave up the missile base in Poland. Tumult is the result! Obama did everything he possibly could to STOP the democracy movement in the Middle East… because he thinks he’s the Twelfth Imam. Democrats can never let the humanitarian efforts of Republicans succeed in foreign policy. Indeed, they do their best to even the score by giving away military secrets, over and over! How do you think the Chinese got missile telemetry or the Russians got Eastern Europe and the bomb?
Afghanistan has elected a mature leader and great strides have been made. They need to remain occupied by the greatest country in the world, for decades, just like the Germans and the Japanese.
duh_swami says
long-term commitments in resources, equipment and other support…
Resources…Give them money, that’s what they need, and men and equipment to guard it. The need for jizya will continue as long as there is someone willing to pay it…
Matthieu Baudin says
Feeble foreign policy and insurmountable debt, are these to be the legacy of the Obama administration?
Angemon says
Huh, what “progress” would that be? Bleeding the American state? Getting American troops killed? Supporting an hostile regime?
BC says
In fact great things have been doen in the country, though very few if any will report it. either because their editors do not want it or they are scared of their careers. Most will cut off their writing arm before they will tell it.
It is thanks to the courage and dedication of the ISAF forces that this was achieved and it would dishonour their name to allow these things to be lost again to the Taliban or IS.. This was the mistake made in Iraq and we know how that has turned out. Do not make the same mistakes again.
May Day says
Obama has to have more space to train ISIS troops. The new American troop uniform will have a large bulls eye on the back.
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