{"id":48934,"date":"2014-05-27T12:33:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T16:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=48934"},"modified":"2014-05-27T12:34:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T16:34:03","slug":"obama-to-leave-9800-troops-for-one-year-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=48934","title":{"rendered":"Obama to leave 9800 troops for one year in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I was writing about the article earlier from the Daily Beast<\/a> about the Pentagon asking for 10,000 troops to remain in Afghanistan after the “withdrawal” later this year, the Washington Post<\/a> was writing their article in regards to the President’s decision to leave 9800 troops in Afghanistan for a year after the “withdrawal”;<\/p>\n

The troops will include both forces to train and advise Afghanistan\u2019s military and a separate group of Special Operations forces to continue counterterrorism missions against what the official called \u201cthe remnants of al-Qaeda.\u201d<\/p>\n

The troops will include forces to train and advise Afghanistan\u2019s military and a group of Special Operations forces.<\/p>\n

The decision, to be announced Tuesday afternoon, is contingent upon whether Afghanistan\u2019s new president signs a bilateral security agreement that current President Hamid Karzai has refused to sign. The two candidates in a runoff election scheduled for June 14 have both said they will sign the accord.<\/p>\n

The 9,800 troops will be based around Afghanistan until the end of 2015, after which they will be reduced by roughly half and consolidated in Kabul and at the Bagram airfield north of the capital. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I don’t see any mention of “victory” so what’s the point? Are the US troops going to be able to teach the Afghans something that they didn’t teach them before? What will half of the US troops in 2016 be able to accomplish that the ten thousand couldn’t in 2015.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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