US troops to stay in Afghanistan

So while I was partying at Walter Reed yesterday, the President, Shotgun Joe Bite Me, Ashton Carter and the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs announced that those ten thousand troops in Afghanistan will remain there after this administration leaves office. Well, it’s no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention. In 2009, the President and the rest of the White House was told that a “surge” of less than 60,000 troops to Afghanistan wouldn’t have any real impact against our enemies there. The politicians ignored this advice and half-assed the surge with a political compromise.

Now the Taliban is controlling more of Afghanistan than they have since they were removed from power in 2001. They’re making more advances everyday – mostly because they want to give us a boot in the ass on our way out the door. Ashton Carter told the media that “there is still much work to be done”. Yeah because no one was willing to make the commitment six years ago. Obama didn’t want to completely piss off his anti-war base. Bad military decisions have a cost.

Just a few years ago, this administration wouldn’t even let the US troops arm themselves in the presence of our enemies, creating an opportunity for green-on-blue murders. And then they blamed our own troops for the attacks.

The administration’s strategy in Afghanistan really isn’t a strategy at all. It’s a big waiting game for a new administration that has the gonads to actually fight the war. But that administration has it’s job cut out for it. Not only is the Taliban stronger, ISIS has also made some gains in the country, in fact, there has been some fighting between the two, which isn’t unwelcome.

The Fiscal Times says that keeping troops in Afghanistan longer is “bad news” for Biden’s campaign;

Obama and Biden campaigned hard in the last election on their plan to end U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, which the U.S. invaded after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. Voting for their Republican opponents, they warned, was voting to keep U.S. troops stationed in the volatile region indefinitely. That now appears to be the Obama administration’s plan as well.

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The problem for Biden is that U.S. policy in Afghanistan has been, in large part, his policy.

Actually, it should just remind voters that Joe Biden has been on the wrong side of history on every single foreign policy issue over the last thirty years.

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