{"id":39505,"date":"2014-01-29T09:06:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T14:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39505"},"modified":"2014-01-29T09:50:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T14:50:44","slug":"obama-to-declare-end-of-afghanistan-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39505","title":{"rendered":"Obama to declare end of Afghanistan War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/obama-troops-may-remain-in-afghanistan-beyond-war-1.264525\">The Associated Press<\/a> reports that President Obama told the nation last night that he may leave troops in Afghanistan after this year (generals are asking for ten thousand), but he&#8217;s still going to declare an end to the war;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Barack Obama says a small U.S. military force may remain in Afghanistan next year, but he&#8217;s promising to declare an end to the 12-year war there at the end of 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Obama said during his State of the Union speech Tuesday that Afghanistan will take responsibility for its own future after the end of the year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Afghan President Hamid Karzai won&#8217;t sign an agreement for US troops to remain there, so, it&#8217;s really just speculation that troops will remain. Karzai has also accused the US of perpetrating the worst terrorist attacks in his country, so he&#8217;s not even taking responsibility for it&#8217;s present, let alone it&#8217;s future. <\/p>\n<p>Just declaring an end to the war will only make the Obama supporters feel good about themselves, the Taliban haven&#8217;t returned my calls about whether they agree to ending the war this year or not. The Left declared that the Iraq War was ended, too, and how well has that worked for the Iraqis? By the way we&#8217;re selling some Apache helicopters to Iraq next month. I wonder how many Americans will accompany the helicopters to Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>President Clinton promised that we&#8217;d end our involvement in the Balkans back in <del datetime=\"2014-01-29T14:50:26+00:00\">2006<\/del> 1996, how&#8217;s that doing? But, hey, we all feel better, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that President Obama told the nation last night that he may leave &hellip; <a title=\"Obama to declare end of Afghanistan War\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39505\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama to declare end of Afghanistan War<\/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-39505","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\/39505","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=39505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}