Posted on 03/10/2020 5:34:41 AM PDT by bitt
U.S. military forces have begun leaving Afghanistan and will not be replaced, despite the political unrest that threatens the recently signed Taliban peace agreement that has resulted in the troop withdraw.
The initial U.S. troop withdrawal is based on a joint declaration between the U.S. and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and a U.S. agreement with the Taliban requiring the political-military group to stop its deadly attacks on America’s Afghan allies.
Per the agreement, Washington will try to cut the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan from 13,000 to 8,600.
A complication arose Monday as Afghanistan’s rival leaders — Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah — were simultaneously sworn in as president of the country in separate ceremonies.
The deal, which was signed on February 29, stipulates that the U.S. must begin pulling troops out of the region within 10 days of the signing. Once the number of troops still in Afghanistan is leveled down to 8,600, General Scott Miller, the U.S. commander in Kabul, will make a decision about next steps based upon conditions on the ground with a goal of removing all troops within 14 months.
The peace agreement is not connected to intra-Afghan stability, rather it dependent upon the Taliban preventing terror organizations from using Afghan to “threaten the security of the United States and its allies.”
Please. Bring them all home.
We are going to need them at home.
About damn time! My daughter is scheduled to go later this year. I hope that gets cancelled.
The Art of the Deal? Nope...
“There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
https://www.newswars.com/trump-delivers-tearjerker-speech-at-maga-rally/
Thanks, Chief. Very much.
Yeah. Like the T-ban is going to honor this agreement. The muzzies have a law in their Ktexran that says they can lie to you to your face, sign an agreement, then back out and stab you in the back. As long as you are one of those non-believing infidels, that is. Otherwise, they just kill ya.
You can bet this important story will never be reported by the MSM. Trump will get ZERO credit for bringing this long war to an end.
Once we’re completely out, I don’t much care who’s getting killed in Afghanistan.
911 was caused by Saudis. Afghanistan was just a distraction like the video caused Benghazi. Now Iraq is controlled by Iran. Amazing what a trillion bucks can do.
Bring them home and make a photo op about it.
R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Wood. Condolences to friends and family.
Should I mention International Libyan War Princess Hillaryous Rotten Criminal?
“We came, we saw, he died” - cackle, cankle.
Did anyone get a selfie with her and one cankle upon mad Mo.
Civil Asset Forfeiture. The money in the GCi could be used for things in America, or would the non-issuing fatwa fat azz mullahs in the ME be too upset?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlz3-OzcExI
We the people dodged a bullet there. MOGA? Not so much.
If you like your hellhole, you can keep your hellhole.
No 2A there? Maybe purple fingers though.
Chicken S CONgre$$ with UNDECLARED WARS ALERT!
Beware the military industrial complex.
Thanks President trump.
Good place to practice our new bombs on. Just go up to 35,000 and carpet bomb the entire damned cess pool as far as I am concerned. Kill the rag heads and their girl friends, the female goats.
And the msm could not care any less.
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