US Troops Could Potentially Stay in Afghanistan Until 2024

[Harm94]

For me, personally, one of the most upsetting things about the wars in the middle east and the uprisings in North Africa is the destruction and theft of so many relics and ruins.

It's been a massive loss to the study of antiquity.
There's so much from those civilisations yet discovered. So much of it has been lost to the sands and cultures over the last 6000 years, and what has happened to survive it now gets destroyed by missiles, rebel armies and thieves.

I was disgusted during the Egyptian uprising when Egyptian citizens in Cairo ransacked their own National History museum and stole and destroyed countless Egyptian artefacts.
And the British Museums had only just started to return them to Egypt, as good will favours and to return some of their culture.

By the way, have the English ever turned those greek statues back to Greece?

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[dorkdotdan]

The Political US has been a stuff sack since the election of Franklin Roosevelt. He introduced Social Security and therefore is pretty much the father of modern socialism in the US.

[Funkadelic]

Hey, I'm just thankful he got most of the troops out of there.

[chaseyqurt]

Russia Today is a horrible source for information. Russia Today is a state owned news agency with an obvious anti-US bias.

Fair News is not conducted this way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ugCIjzHptA

The front page of RT includes a USA link.
http://rt.com/usa/
All of the headlines serve to give the United States a bad image. RT's rhetoric and literature reek of bias and can't be trusted. RT is essentially Russian Propaganda Today.

That being said, if you actually read the document it doesn't say anything about any amount of troops staying in Afghanistan. US Military strategy in Afghanistan has changed. We'll probably see troop reduction in 2014 because the war is different now. US Foreign policy is to kick down doors in the night, train people, and kill people through camera lenses.

The government is going to shift money with this shift in strategy and alot of soldiers will get sent home. Afghanistan is a failed country. The ANSF is horrible and firefights/Self Delete bombings/etc are ingrained into contemporary Afghan culture. The persistence of extremist also means that there probably won't be an end to this but life goes on.  

[Muslim]

Thank you!

[Harm94]

In addition to RT being an unreliable source, CNN is basically the liberal version of FOX.

[Clone v.117]

Silly America, that's not your country.

[devildogelite]

A war doesn't have to be officially declared as one, for all we know we could be in some foreign country right now killing civilians which the public doesn't even know about.

When exactly has the United States been in a country purposefully killing innocent civilians? What the forget does this sentence even mean, it hurts reading some of the stuff you post.

[Harm94]

The only civilian causalities are the result of tribal troops, troops and pilots under the influence of some drug, and bad intel that leads to a civilian area getting bombed. 

[Funkadelic]

In addition to RT being an unreliable source, CNN is basically the liberal version of FOX.

Not at all, CNN just has poor reporting. They have either very left or very right wing authors on CNN.

[Harm94]

Well atleast US forces aren't the only ones there. Shame though that the rest of NATO has to be stuck there with US.

[Bisjac]

i see canada sent their usual 50 guys

[Zloff]

I wonder how things would be if McCain won lol