Troops out now.
What makes the USA Military think more time for training and support to Afghan's military is going to change anything? Nothing has changed yet.
And don't compare this to South Korea it is not at all the same. Why doesn't the USA military admit this is about Iran?
There was a very large USA drone that crashed in Iran. I would think it is completely obvious by now.
October 15, 2015
President Obama (click here) is expected to announce a plan Thursday to keep 5,500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan into 2017, ending his ambitions to bring home most American forces from that war-torn country before he leaves office.
The president’s decision came after an “extensive months-long review” that included regular discussions with Afghanistan’s leaders, his national security team and U.S. commanders in the field, a senior administration official said.
Obama will also slow the pace of the reduction of American forces and plans to maintain the current U.S. force of 9,800 through “most of 2016,” said the official, who spoke anonymously to preview the president’s announcement....
The Afghans do not want the USA in their land. There have been green on blue attacks that even killed a two star general.
The Afghan military did just fine in it's most recent battle against the Taliban, besides the bank robbery.
Afghanistan doesn't need more war, it needs a rehab program for wayward Taliban. The Taliban needs to disperse, go back to their families and resume their poppy farming.
RT is reporting more Snowden documents are posting. The posts are about the USA drone program.
October 14, 2015
Last year, Glenn Greenwald, (click here) one of the journalists to whom former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked classified NSA documents, co-wrote a story about the NSA and FBI's surveillance of five high-profile Muslim Americans.
The lengthy report, based on classified documents from the Snowden trove, contained a particularly inflammatory nugget of information: The FBI and NSA used "Mohammed Raghead" as a placeholder for the name of a surveillance target in a government template advising intelligence community personnel how to write surveillance requests. The slur was seized upon by dozens of news outlets. It also prompted the White House to call upon the director of National Intelligence to launch a "diversity and tolerance" review....
What makes the USA Military think more time for training and support to Afghan's military is going to change anything? Nothing has changed yet.
And don't compare this to South Korea it is not at all the same. Why doesn't the USA military admit this is about Iran?
There was a very large USA drone that crashed in Iran. I would think it is completely obvious by now.
October 15, 2015
President Obama (click here) is expected to announce a plan Thursday to keep 5,500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan into 2017, ending his ambitions to bring home most American forces from that war-torn country before he leaves office.
The president’s decision came after an “extensive months-long review” that included regular discussions with Afghanistan’s leaders, his national security team and U.S. commanders in the field, a senior administration official said.
Obama will also slow the pace of the reduction of American forces and plans to maintain the current U.S. force of 9,800 through “most of 2016,” said the official, who spoke anonymously to preview the president’s announcement....
The Afghans do not want the USA in their land. There have been green on blue attacks that even killed a two star general.
The Afghan military did just fine in it's most recent battle against the Taliban, besides the bank robbery.
Afghanistan doesn't need more war, it needs a rehab program for wayward Taliban. The Taliban needs to disperse, go back to their families and resume their poppy farming.
RT is reporting more Snowden documents are posting. The posts are about the USA drone program.
October 14, 2015
Last year, Glenn Greenwald, (click here) one of the journalists to whom former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked classified NSA documents, co-wrote a story about the NSA and FBI's surveillance of five high-profile Muslim Americans.
The lengthy report, based on classified documents from the Snowden trove, contained a particularly inflammatory nugget of information: The FBI and NSA used "Mohammed Raghead" as a placeholder for the name of a surveillance target in a government template advising intelligence community personnel how to write surveillance requests. The slur was seized upon by dozens of news outlets. It also prompted the White House to call upon the director of National Intelligence to launch a "diversity and tolerance" review....
