{"id":57136,"date":"2014-12-15T13:01:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T18:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57136"},"modified":"2014-12-15T13:01:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T18:01:07","slug":"afghanistan-the-victory-lap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57136","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan; the victory lap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/dec\/15\/obama-mark-end-combat-mission-afghanistan-despite-\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> reports that the President, that Obama fellow, plans on taking a victory lap for the end of the war in Afghanistan, despite the lessons that he should have learned from the Bush &#8220;Mission Accomplished&#8221; thing and his own touting of the not-so-end of the war in Iraq. I guess it&#8217;s more of a wishful thinking thing, or that popular &#8220;Hope &#038; Change&#8221; thing we hear about these days.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The president is traveling Monday to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey, where he\u2019ll join Republican Gov. Chris Christie in thanking troops for their service in Afghanistan and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur war in Afghanistan is coming to a responsible end,\u201d Mr. Obama said in his weekly address.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr. Obama also said the end of combat in Afghanistan \u201cdoesn\u2019t mean the end of challenges to our security.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It also doesn&#8217;t mean that the commitment to the war in Afghanistan has ended either &#8211; more than 10,000 troops will remain there. In fact, two of them, Sgt. 1st Class Ramon S. Morris, 37, of New York, New York; and Spc. Wyatt J. Martin, 22, of Mesa, Arizona of the 3rd Engineer Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas were killed just this weekend in the wave of violence that swept across Afghanistan in the wake of our withdrawing troops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that the President, that Obama fellow, plans on taking a victory lap &hellip; <a title=\"Afghanistan; the victory lap\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57136\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Afghanistan; the victory lap<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57136","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=57136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}