La Belle France has ended its combat mission in Afghanistan, pulling its last troops from a province northeast of the capital, Kabul.
Tuesday's withdrawal of 500 combat troops from Kapisa province is part of President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, and a fine job he's doing of it... 's pledge to accelerate the country's exit from Afghanistan. Afghan cops will now be in charge of maintaining security in the province.
La Belle France had been the fifth-largest contributor to the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... -led coalition. It is keeping 1,500 troops in Afghanistan to help send equipment back home and to train Afghan forces.
Eighty-eight French troops have died in Afghanistan since La Belle France joined the fighting in late 2001.
Remaining international combat troops are set to leave the country by the end of 2014.
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Thanks France.Sorry we couldnt deal with the real problem in the region ie Pakistans jihadi army and Irans mullah Govt.
Saudi won't allow a US victory, and what Saudi asks, Saudi gets. Obama bows to their king. Bush is mates with him. They are allowed to kill 3000 people in New York and we end up firing rockets at everyone else but them.
If you're working for Uncle Sam, you're working for the Saudi, home of Mecca.
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced on Sunday that General Carter Ham Commander of GOC Africa Command (Africom), headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. (U.S. Africa Command is one of six unified geographic commands within the Department of Defense unified command structure.) for refusing to obey orders not to assist the US personnel in Benghazi on the night of September 11. Army General David Rodriguez has been appointed by President Obama to become replace him.
Gen. Ham refused to take responsibility for the decision not to provide essential air coverage and other support for the beleaguered personnel at the Consulate. After the information was leaked last week that three urgent requests for support were denied to the Americans trapped in the Consulate and the Annex, President Barack Obama said on Sunday, "The minute I found out what was going on, I gave three very clear directives -- Number 1, make sure that we are securing our personnel and doing whatever we need to." According to the highly decorated, four-star General, Carter Ham, the President is lying...
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This is how Benghazi will play out. Those with the right stuff are no longer needed. With our current leadership America no longer will do the right thing. I look for far worse events yet to happen. With similar results.
German soldiers and missiles seem likely to be posted to Turkeys border with Syria soon. One report suggested the government was checking the legality of such a posting, ahead of a Turkish request expected on Monday.
The Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported on Saturday that government officials were discussing whether a parliamentary mandate would be needed to send the 170 soldiers which would be needed to staff two Patriot missile units as part of a NATO mission.
The Turkish government said ten days ago it wanted the air defence missiles for its border with Syria, where rockets from the civil-war-wracked country have killed several civilians.
As a NATO member, Turkey can call upon other members to help defend its borders and is expected to do so on Monday.
Only three NATO countries the US, Netherlands and Germany - have the most advanced Patriot models, the PAC-3, which can be used against planes as well as rockets, the paper said.
And the German government is convinced it should contribute to such a NATO operation Defence Minister Thomas de Maizière said as much on Thursday after a meeting with French, Polish, Italian and Spanish colleagues, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported.
De Maizière stressed such an operation would only be to defend Turkey, and that German forces would not take any part in the Syrian civil war.
Initially, because the shift of rockets and soldiers would be within the NATO area, no parliamentary mandate would be needed to move them to Turkey, the paper said. But should the soldiers be in danger of becoming involved in fighting, such a mandate would be necessary and the opposition could demand that in advance.
It remained unclear on Friday how many troops NATO would consider moving to Turkey. Germanys airforce has 24 deployable units, each requiring 85 soldiers. A certain, secret, number of these are registered as ready for action as part of the NATO Response Force, and could be deployed within ten days of an order being given, the paper said.
Turkey's border with Syria has been the site of missile strikes and fighting linked to the Syrian civil war. The government has accepted hundreds of thousands of Syrian civil war refugees, but is having difficulty providing for them and has already asked Germany and other countries for help.
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The Germans would do well to defend their own borders, instead of letting Islamic nutjobs move there (and probably giving them welfare too). You think the Baader-Meinhof gang was a PITA*? You ain't seen nothing yet.
Still think the EU and the Euro was a good idea?
*Pain In The Ass
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"The Germans would do well to defend their own borders, instead of letting Islamic nutjobs move there"
At least we don't have president who is a muslim?
How many Islamic nutjobs have we let in? How many people killed in our cities by Saudi Arabians we trained to fly planes?
People in glass houses and all that.
And for the record, I don't want to see our troops anywhere near Syria!
[Xinhua] French President Francois Hollande's approval ratings continued to fall for a sixth consecutive month, adding more pressure on the Socialist leader to bring wealth and jobs for Europe's struggling key powerhouse, a survey showed on Sunday.
An Ifop poll for the weekly Le Journal de Dimanche showed Hollande's popularity fell by one point from a month earlier to 41 percent in November.
At his first major press meeting earlier this week, Hollande asked the French people to judge him on his long-term bid to address the country's economic and financial problems.
"The only question that matters is not the state of public opinion today, it is the state of France in five years. My mission is simple: growth, recovery and fight against the unemployment, and it is on these results, these results alone, I ask to be judged by the French," the president said.
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[Xinhua] French President Francois Hollande's approval ratings continued to fall for a sixth consecutive month, adding more pressure on the Socialist leader to bring wealth and jobs for Europe's struggling key powerhouse, a survey showed on Sunday.
