Obama puts the brakes on Afghanistan drawdown

[fan_since79]

8,400 troops will remain for the duration of his administration.

Anyone have a problem with that? Discuss.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/obama-slows-afghanistan-drawdown-announces-8-400-troops-will-remain-n604646

[mtangelsfan]

Not too many people care when we fight brown people.  You can't count on the libs to be anti-war anymore. (which is sad because that is one of the few things they are good for) :).  

Cons love blowing stuff up all the time.

[nate]

Hey Obama, 

[fan_since79]

It doesn't matter how long we stay there. When we finally leave, the Taliban will move in quickly and take back control of the country.

 

[Adam]

I'm sure Obama has some defense contractors with some quotas to meet. 

 

At least Obama can be empathetic without seeming like a phony. Trump has absolutely no empathy and won't even fake it. Hillary is a complete con in that department.

4 more years!

[Tank]

will he still brag about ending the war there?

[arch stanton]

Somehow we manage to maintain a voluntary force that's willing to go over there and do the dirty work. Patriotism rules!

[TobiasFunke]

1 hour ago, fan_since79 said:

It doesn't matter how long we stay there. When we finally leave, the Taliban will move in quickly and take back control of the country.

 

So we should just keep dumping young men and money in that area. It's been going great so far.

[mtangelsfan]

50 minutes ago, arch stanton said:

Somehow we manage to maintain a voluntary force that's willing to go over there and do the dirty work. Patriotism rules!

My nephew just arrived there.  Free college is a pretty good draw don't you think?

[Blarg]

The same president that would be transparent,  close GITMO, end the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, eight years later have left everything as fucked up as when he started. 

But don't worry Wall Street Hillary will do what is best for you and I. 

[Tank]

never get involved in a land war in asia!

[fan_since79]

2 hours ago, TobiasFunke said:

So we should just keep dumping young men and money in that area. It's been going great so far.

I didn't say that. I believe we should have exited right after we deposed the Taliban in late 2001.

Either that, or send a half-million men in after bombing the place to smithereens, and then destroy the country and everyone in it. But of course that's politically impossible. It would take care of our Taliban problem, but piss off another billion Muslims worldwide and increase terrorism exponentially.

We're going to be stuck with this enemy for the duration. The best thing we can do is contain them.

 

[nate]

Actually we should leave, stop feeding them American lives and defend our own country.

[fan_since79]

Just now, nate said:

Actually we should leave, stop feeding them American lives and defend our own country.

So I assume you're not a fan of bringing in thousands of young Muslim men from the Syrian battleground areas?

 

[nate]

Nope, not at all.  In fact we shouldn't allow anyone into this country for at least a decade.

[Spirit]

2 hours ago, mtangelsfan said:

My nephew just arrived there.  Free college is a pretty good draw don't you think?

 

Yes ... it's a great draw! 

 

[IEAngelsfan]

7 hours ago, Tank said:

never get involved in a land war in asia!

Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!

[Spirit]

Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

 

 

[Lou]

1 hour ago, IEAngelfan said:

Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!

Haha you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!

[ten ocho recon scout]

On 7/6/2016 at 9:01 PM, fan_since79 said:

I didn't say that. I believe we should have exited right after we deposed the Taliban in late 2001.

Either that, or send a half-million men in after bombing the place to smithereens, and then destroy the country and everyone in it. But of course that's politically impossible. It would take care of our Taliban problem, but piss off another billion Muslims worldwide and increase terrorism exponentially.

We're going to be stuck with this enemy for the duration. The best thing we can do is contain them.

 

The lroblem with leaving in 2001 is that the goal was never the taliban to begin with, it was AQ. 

Who knows what difference it could have made, but the huge mistake we made there was losing focus and going to iraq. The taliban was contained, almost an afterthought up until about shen obama was coming into office (not blaming him, just referencing the timeline). In the years between 01 and then, we basically ignored the situation there and focused everything on iraq. Once the taliban popped their heads back up and saw how lazy (for lack of a better term) we were being about the situation, they made their move and came back. 

 

[Glen]

Iraq was such a clusterfuck. And yet we've investigated Benghazi at least six times.

[Amazing Larry]

5 minutes ago, Glen said:

Iraq is such a clusterfuck. And yet we've investigated Benghazi at least six times.

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