French President Francois Hollande’s campaign promise to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan at the end of 2012 is unchanged, at least to hear him tell it.
On a surprise visit to Afghanistan, Hollande announced that France is actually withdrawing just a little over half of their 3,400 troops from the nation, and will leave “around 1,400” troops in the country beyond the new year.
Taking a page out of President Obama’s playbook, Hollande will label the 1,400 troops “non-combat,” and insists that they will focus on training and logistics missions. It doesn’t appear that they are ruling out them taking a role in combat, however.
“We will still have a military force that will be dedicated to the training of Afghan army officers — that will also be present at the hospital, the airport and also will allow the Afghans to have a police force that is the most effective possible,” Hollande said, adding that “there will be further engagement.”
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So he lies by switching the definition of combat troops in a s much the same way Obummer did in Iraq in 2010 and Afghanistan in 2014?
At least somebody is learning from Hope and Change!!!!
We can conclude that the French President Francois Hollande lied in his campaign promise just as Obama did. Are all politicians dishonest?
The hell with Anti-war.com for the manner in which they post readers comments. Their criteria are just a notch better than MSN and corporate media. Whereas corporate media does not publish opposing viewpoints at all, Anti-war either doesn’t publish them or if they do so they do it when it is too late. If they publish this comment, they want to show that I’m wrong, but don’t be fooled by such shenanigan.
no-good dirtbag. the war is lost and this scut knows it. he could care less how many of his troops get killed or maimed.