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| US troops may stay in Afghanistan until 2024 | |
| 2011-08-19 | |
America and Afghanistan are close to signing a strategic pact which would allow thousands of United States troops to remain in the country until at least 2024, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
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| Posted by:tipper |
| #4 The pushing and shoving has already begun here. Yesterday I learned of a USMC element which was alleged to have declined an offer of reinforcement from an Army element. The Pentagon should carefully monitor senior leadership attempts at remaining "relevant" and fully funded via wartime budget fencing and continued engagement. Promotion is slow and resources are limited in a peacetime military... as they should be. Get over it services! Those are American young men and women who are dying in this God forsaken place. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-08-19 22:15 |
| #3 Nothing has changed in Afghanistan in 500 to 1000 years. Nothing will change in the next 500 to 1000. This is a hopeless tribal Malaise and tribute to the military-industrial complex. We must extricate ourselves from these misadventures and not look back! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-08-19 21:48 |
| #2 It's 2105. Are they home yet? |
| Posted by: Perfesser 2011-08-19 21:05 |
| #1 We could keep pouring blood and treasure into Afghanistan until 2124 - and one year after we left, it would still revert back to 700 AD. We need to get out now. Erect a wall around the place, stick up a bunch of signs that say "Hell on Earth," and be done with it. |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2011-08-19 19:46 |