Taliban said in a statement that they welcomed the president’s announcement
President Trump's sudden pronouncement that U.S. troops in Afghanistan “should” be home by Christmas will make the already sensitive negotiations with the Taliban more difficult, U.S. officials told Fox News on Thursday.
In the deal the Trump administration signed with the Taliban in February, all U.S. troops will leave Afghanistan by May 2021 if conditions are met. The conditions include that there will be no attacks against U.S. forces.
“We should have the small remaining number of our BRAVE Men and Women serving in Afghanistan home by Christmas!” Trump tweeted late Wednesday.
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Update #1: Military blindsided by Trump’s new Afghan troop withdrawal (AP)
Update #2: Anonymous Officials Unleash On Trump For Wanting Afghan Pullout By Christmas (Zero Hedge)
WNU Editor: As I had mentioned in my commentary here .... President Trump Tweets That All US Soldiers In Afghanistan Should Be Home By Christmas (October 8, 2020), it is time to bring US and coalition forces home.
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Are their sons and daughters in Afghanistan?
John Kelly and maybe a few others are the only ones. who had "skin in the games" as Obummer would say. If your sons and daughters are not there it is easy for you to say.
If you are a Democrat grooming you son for the presidency having them do a 6 month or 1 year stint as JAG or intel, where you are not going out on daily patrols, not pulling guard duty in the perimeter of a camp, or not in a small combat outpost is not the same as the average soldier. It is not the same risk level.
Mega camps are almost like camping out, You might have occasional harassment artillery. Might.
There is an opportunity cost to the money spent on the Afghan War. We could spend money on Detroit or some other Democrat cesspool or dukedom. After evicting the Democrat Lord and his or her retinue and courtiers.
Will it get worse after we leave? It will. But China, Russia, or Pakistan will step in.
If China steps in ISIS, Taliban, and Al Qaeda are assuming room temperature on a mass scale. The Taliban should have taken the deal.
I get what you're saying anon.
But since the military situation likely would not change in who knows how many decades, and assuming the afghan government slowly overcomes the factors that make the country such a dungheap and those factors are many, I think we've done enough for the country.
Without our presence and funding the stew that is Afghanistan will evolve on it's own as it is doing now, just differently.
Past history, if known and not ignored, would have led to a different outcome for us. Unfortunately the Bush administration thought this time it will be different and chose to ignore the reality of the country and it's peoples and their history.
I think the country is blessed with natural resources and an industrious people but obviously there are other factors in it's present make up that are more than I wish to confront any longer.
I don't think you do. I think you are trolling.
The battle for Afghanistan was fought and lost in Pakistan and to a lesser extent Iran and Russia. It was eminently winnable. Bush made an attempt in Swat. It was not enough. Pakistan slammed the door on our dick hard, when they cut out MSR's.
Obama was elected and he never made a play in Swat or anywhere else. He let Putin cut our ASR north of Afghanistan. I think Obama enjoyed it.
Many people have set up in Afghanistan. Alexander set up camp in Afghanistan and the Greek presence as rulers lasted over 2 hundred years.
The Mughal Empire started in Afghanistan. If they lost Afghanistan, they didn't care. They had moved on. They had all of India and Pakistan.
The British got mauled. The British always ran their empire on a shoestring. If India were seriously threatened, the British would had put more oomph into it.
I wish you would learn history instead of parroting what you heard.
Perhaps 4:20, we, but not you of course, should have invaded Pakistan? And if that didn't work, dug up and resurrected all the occupants of graves crumbled to dust when they too were buried in Afghanistan after thinking they could "win" there? Would that be enough young men to "win in Afghanistan"?
I don't doubt the war was winnable. After all we have nukes...oh, that's right...so do the other countries I presume, reading your comments, we would have had to nuke to prevail in Afghanistan since, as you write, it was in those countries that we "lost" Afghanistan. Or were you suggesting that to have not "lost" Afghanistan we should have invaded Russia, Iran, and Pakistan with a conventional response?
Just exactly HOW were we going to prevail in Afghanistan, 4:20, if we "lost" due to Russia and the others you mention?
My suggestion to you sir is become a volunteer at a local VA facility, or set out flags at our country's cemeteries each Memorial Day. Hey! You could get a job making and fitting artificial limbs! Think of what you could buy with THAT paycheck! How about wheelchair pusher? Exercise AND a paycheck! The best of both worlds! Assuming you are educable doing so would be quite and enlightenment. An enlightenment I think you have not yet had, judging by your comments.
Frankly, I would place you in a category of human behavior I once experienced in a foreign country over 50 years ago. That category is this; "Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it."
And no, sir, I was not trolling nor "parroting what I heard".
"Perhaps 4:20, we, but not you of course, should have invaded Pakistan? "
Perhaps we, but not you, should have played hard ball with Pakistan such as cut off their aid suddenly and did other hardball things.
They played hard ball with us and we played tiddly winks with them.
Putin found it easy to take away Transit Center at Manas from Obama (our ASR). He could not take it away from Bush.
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