Concur. And just because I think it belongs on the thread:
Rand Paul: Bring the troops home now
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3863700/posts
I have said for years that if we have to have people serving tour after tour in war zones we are either there far too long or we are way over extending our military. In this case both.
Trump is doing the right thing getting us out of there and it is very instructive to see just who is adamantly opposed to it. This is just wrong on so many levels.
“Lynn Cheney seem bent on keeping us there.”
Before you start coming down on Cheney, you should realize she’s not alone in her concern for diplomatic solutions in Afghanistan. Cheney and Mac Thornberry are the two that have vocally been quoted mainly because of the name with Chaney and that Thornberry is GOP. But the decision to slow Trump came from the Crow (Jason, Dem, Colorado) and Cheney from force reduction prohibiting the expenditure of monies to reduce the number of U.S. troops deployed in Afghanistan below 8,000 without a series of conditions first being met.
For these troop reductions from Afghanistan to be allowed, the Defense Department must be able to certify, among other things, that leaving Afghanistan “will not increase the risk for the expansion of existing or formation of new terrorist safe havens inside Afghanistan” and “will not compromise or otherwise negatively affect the ongoing United States counter terrorism mission against the Islamic State, al Qaeda, and associated forces.” Another requirement is an assessment of whether any “state actors have provided any incentives to the Taliban, their affiliates, or other foreign terrorist organizations for attacks against United States, coalition, or Afghan security forces or civilians in Afghanistan in the last two years, including the details of any attacks believed to have been connected with such incentives.
The vote on that from the house armed service committee was a pass at 45 - 11. So there are a lot of representatives in disagreement with how it is being done. More than just Cheney.
rwood
I don’t understand why it was necessary for him to serve six full tours
I cannot say about all but many feel a strong obligation to their men.
Our USMC Infantry son did an additional tour in Anbar Provence because he felt they did not have enough experienced leaders.
He was not the only one in the unit to extend.
I do not believe there was any top-down pressure for this action.
They are brothers.
It was not necessary to serve that many tours. It’s not something everyone can walk away from, I’m guessing.
My son “Ace” flew Dash - 8s for the Army over there. He did two tours. I was never so thankful when he came home!
I would scrub floors in the Pentagon before I’d let him go back!
Exactly, you do NOT understand that America still raises warriors. Thank God there are more willing and able to SERVE voluntarily in harms way. On that note, my best buddy a few years ago unexpectedly committed suicide after three tours. In these days of a fear ridden society, it is obvious we need more righteous warriors like these men, they can never be replaced.
I think you mean Liz Cheney,the representative from Wyoming who’s VP Dick’s daughter, not Lynne Cheney, Dick’s wife. Unless Lynne is engaging in policy now and I don’t know about it.
Well, someone has to protect the poppy fields.