Recently retired commander of the Afghan occupation General John Allen has revealed that despite claims from White House officials, the “zero troops option” was never under consideration for post-2014 Afghanistan, and that US had only considered various numbers of troops to remain beyond that date.
Officials made the claim of the “zero option” in early January, just days before Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s visit to the US, and it was seen as primarily a diplomatic ploy for officials hoping to keep Karzai in line. Allen’s comments seem to confirm that.
Rather, Gen. Allen says that the various options the administration was considering, and which he wrote, all included keeping troops in the nation to “support” Karzai, and that the notion of leaving was never really on the table.
“Sometimes this comes as a surprise when I say this: that on January 1 2015, there’s still going to be fighting in Afghanistan,” Allen added. President Obama signed a deal to keep US troops in Afghanistan through at least 2024.
Look: this government been and is playing you like if you were from Hollywood born to be a falsified democrat politician.., domestic and internationally Hollywood is famous for its delusional acts.., this is beyond Hollywood.
Personally, I always believed that they had no intention of pulling all the troops out at the end of 2014…after all, they'd been saying all along that they were planning on staying until at least 2024. Just as there are still troops in Iraq and will be for a number of years out. There is an agenda at play here for the entire region and it ain't freedom and democracy…
And once 2024 "rolled around" you'd hear the cackling heads talk about our "enduring friendship" and how they need to remain a-la Korea, Japan, Germany etc. etc. etc….
OOOOO What a surprise…!!! We can't learn from history OR our own past experiences… (Vietnam) ….. Why not stay in the "graveyard of empires" forever…??? Maybe it's because this economically failed state may need the 2-3 billion a week it costs US to stay there to pay for stuff that we really need like repairing and updating our rustbelt crumbling infrastructure…!!! We will not leave Afghanistan when we want to, but when it becomes more than we are able to afford, politically and or economically…!!!! When the dollar collapses, we will be gone in a heartbeat…!!!!!
"When the dollar collapses, we will be gone in a heartbeat…!!!!!"
The dollar collapse will kill off so many "useless eaters" that the US gov should be able to afford even more wars.
Obama tried this with Iraq as the date for the total withdrawal of American troops approached. He moaned, groaned, whimpered and begged for Maliki to let American troops stay. However, the deal breaker was immunity for those troops, which Iraq refused to grant. And so, we removed our military from that sordid little war.
Now we are coming up with the same thing in Afganistan, although not as structured as Iraq's SOFA. The deal breaker will probably again be immunity for troops remaining. Let's see if Karzai has learned a lesson from Iraq's handling of the Pentagon.
There forever!!! ——– (Unless the boyz have to face local justice for their crimes) THEN… maybe not so long…??? Gee how could this even woork if they couldn't shoot 12yo schoolboys in their beds while they sleep…??? It's the freedom agenda, kill, rape and torture anyone you want…. Not like thooz backwards Muslims that actually punish the predators upon society…
Allen is a fear-monger and an oxygen thief. If Afghanistan would cancel the SOFA between us and them, and make our troops responsible for their crimes against humanity, they would be pulled out tomorrow. Also, all of the 250,000 tax-dodging contractors should be fired.
Isn't Afghanistan a SOVEREIGN NATION and does it not have the right to decide who can stay and who must go, specifically foreign troops on her soil? The arrogance of the united states of mordor knows no bounds anymore…
Maybe something good may come out of this. Maybe this may lead to the Empire going broke and its murderers leaving hanging from choppers and its armies being defeated soundly so that the Afghanistan syndrome will replace the Vietnam syndrome for many tears/years to come.
(Reuters) – Afghanistan said on Sunday it had discovered an oilfield with an estimated 1.8 billion barrels in the north of the war-ravaged country, where U.S. and other foreign forces are trying to tame a Taliban-led insurgency.
The discovery of the basin between northern Balkh and Shiberghan provinces was made after a survey conducted by Afghan and international geologists, said Jawad Omar, a spokesman for the ministry of mines.
Wake up America , you are being used by Israel as a tool to gain total control.
Merica will stay strong. We can't let the bakers and herdsman defeat the most powerful Army man in the history of the world like they did in Vietnam.
We have to help the pope defeat communism like they did in Argentina with his help.
If you have to torture people to make them tell the truth and stop lying about everything then, what's wrong with that?
Merica is number one and numero uno because of our entrepenuerial spirit and Donald Trump because when he had that show and showed the world what we are about when he would fire the people who were failures and because and then also when he builds the buildings that are tall and are Al Queda proof because of security reasons.
We are the most intellignent race on the planet Earth and no one from where they only they thing they export is cool dogs is going to defeat us with their bakery tools and rocks.
President Obama is a hero figure, they should make ken dolls of him killing others with the the brave young fighting drones we invented.
so there!
Merica will stay strong. We can't let the bakers and herdsman defeat the most powerful Army man in the history of the world like they did in Vietnam.
We have to help the pope defeat communism like they did in Argentina with his help.
If you have to torture people to make them tell the truth and stop lying about everything then, what's wrong with that?
Merica is number one and numero uno because of our entrepenuerial spirit and Donald Trump because when he had that show and showed the world what we are about when he would fire the people who were failures and because and then also when he builds the buildings that are tall and are Al Queda proof because of security reasons.
We are the most intellignent race on the planet Earth and no one from where they only they thing they export is cool dogs is going to defeat us with their bakery tools and rocks.
President Obama is a hero figure, they should make ken dolls of him killing others with the the brave young fighting drones we invented.
so there!