Every planned drawdown of US military forces from Afghanistan seems to turn up later than announced and smaller than planned, and despite officials still sticking to the NATO narrative that the Afghan War “ended,” some 10,000 US troops remain there. Officially, the plan is for a major drawdown by the end of next year that will finally catch up with what was supposed to be a 2014 pullout.
Unsurprisingly, the Pentagon is once again fighting against following through on the plans, with officials saying the “plans” they are advancing both intend to withhold the troop level reductions deeper into 2017, and to give the Pentagon more “leeway” in when and how many troops get removed from the country after 2017.
Already 14 years into the occupation of Afghanistan, the continuing struggles of the Afghan military continues to drag US ground troops into combat, and many officials seem to favor just maintaining the occupation essentially forever instead of ending the war and watching the government continue to lose territory to the same insurgency they’ve been fighting throughout that war.
With less and less media coverage of the Afghan War, there seems to be less political interest in seeing the troops brought home, which likely will ensure that the Pentagon proposals to keep troops there get through without too much debate.
If US is to become Ruling Empire of Earth, by use of blunt force and every nefarious and dirty dred known to man, then they must realize that they must leave policing and military enforcers in every nation they rule.
That is not a problem in US where gaining a job of any kind by the masses and gaining a degree is more important than gaining an education so that the Empire that treats them so lavishly iis their real employers.
All work for the Empirical Good, and if called upon they will utterly destroy any and all( it reaches a point by even a slip of tongue or phrases of request can bemisconstrued , or hell being bored those of Empire will find oposition or invent to further their carreers.