MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
The Afghan Loya Jirga starting tomorrow is out last hope to get ALL the troops home and out of Afghanistan next year. I hope the Jirga turns down the 'deal' on keeping US troops after 2014. My plea to the Loya Jirga: Expel the infidels! In the Obama 2012 campaign it seemed for sure they would all be out in 2014, but that was then:
Obama hammered away at Republican rival Mitt Romney on the issue last year, saying the former Massachusetts governor had no timetable for bringing Americans home from the country’s longest war.
“We are bringing our troops home from Afghanistan. And I've set a timetable. We will have them all out of there by 2014,”
Turns out the Pentagon wants to keep 10-15 thousand there to 'train Afghans'. A fairly hazardous job in itself as some Afghans sign up for training, and as soon as they get a US issued gun, they shoot the US troops training them. Obama seems OK with continuing to give Afghans that kind of opportunity. The Pentagon wants to stay in the region as long as even one terrorist remains on the loose!