{"id":33042,"date":"2012-11-30T10:17:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T14:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33042"},"modified":"2012-11-30T10:17:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T14:17:21","slug":"senate-votes-to-speed-afghanistan-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33042","title":{"rendered":"Senate votes to speed Afghanistan withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/senate-backs-quicker-withdrawal-of-troops-from-afghanistan-1.198807\">The Associated Press<\/a> reports that yesterday the Senate voted 62-33 to end our participation in the war in Afghanistan earlier than the Obama Administration planned for the end of 2014;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although the vote was on a nonbinding amendment to a defense policy bill, its significance could not be discounted amid the current discussions.<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen Republicans, including Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, the top GOP lawmaker on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, backed the measure.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., its chief sponsor, argued that al-Qaida is stronger in other parts of the world and that nation-building in Afghanistan has gone off track.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At this point, I have to agree somewhat. The Obama Administration has no intention of bringing the necessary pain to al Qaeda or the Taliban. The Afghans themselves seem perfectly content to let the Taliban take the country back.  No one seems committed to winning the war against terror except the troops who are sacrificing themselves at a higher rate there than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama strategy seems to be only to give the impression that we&#8217;re involved, what with adopting the robot ninja zombie strategy of Joe Bite-Me which is only one degree better than the Clinton cruise missile solution to his terrorist problems.<\/p>\n<p>The sooner we can pull our troops out, the sooner they can stop dying to give the public impression that this administration wants to fight terror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that yesterday the Senate voted 62-33 to end our participation in the &hellip; <a title=\"Senate votes to speed Afghanistan withdrawal\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33042\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Senate votes to speed Afghanistan withdrawal<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}