Still No Clear Message From The White House On U.S. Troops In Afghanistan After 2014

U.S. Marines patrol in Helmand province, Afghanistan, Oct. 12, 2013. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Zachery B. Martin

Mixed Messages On Afghanistan War -- The Hill

The Obama administration has delivered contradictory messages on whether U.S. troops will remain in Afghanistan beyond 2014, stoking uncertainty in Washington and Kabul over America’s strategic endgame for the 12-year war.

Since President Obama’s pledge to pull American forces out of Afghanistan by the end of next year, the White House and Pentagon have swung between a small U.S. postwar force to advise Afghan forces and a complete withdrawal of all U.S. troops.

In public statements since setting the Afghan withdrawal deadline during a 2010 NATO summit in Lisbon, Obama repeatedly stated his administration’s goal of a complete pullout of American troops from the country.

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My Comment: The White house has not made up it's mind on what to do next .... more to the point .... President Obama's focus is elsewhere, and it certainly is not on Afghanistan.