towermonkey wrote: Too deep for me. I hate chemistry. I worked as a chemist for 15 years before I realized it.
LGT wanted to get some foreign policy discussion in tonight I guess...so
I heard a declaration made after a meeting of around 2,000 delegates the other day that said they wanted foreign troops to stop carrying out night raids -- one of the most hated military tactics in Afghanistan -- And one of our coolest, and that they opposed the idea of a permanent American military presence in the country. What!? After all we did for them?
The four-day meeting in the capital city Kabul, known as a loya jirga, or grand assembly, is not a lawmaking body, but its ingratful participants have discussed some of the most sensitive subjects in Afghanistan: the scope of a U.S. military presence after 2014, and the idea of peace talks with the Taliban. Not happening!
This is Bullcrap! We ain't never leaving, why shoud we? No towel head is gonna tell us what to do
We are leaving Iraq, but staying in Kuwait, they really do not want us there. Then they are sending a Brigade Combat Team to re enforce the troops in Kuwait. Afganistan has never been conquered and never will be. Actually I am tired of Karzai threatening us over there. He seems to think we do as he says. Wrong, but I wish we could just pack up and pull out of there also. Not that simple though from what I understand of it all.
Yes the DoD is pulling out of Iraq, what no one is talking about is the largest diplomatic mission the US State Department has launched to date:
U.S. troops are on track to leave Iraq before the end of December, but the U.S. involvement there is anything but over -- meaning local resistance to Americans, and the security challenges that come with it, will continue.
In place of the military, the State Department will assume a new role of unprecedented scale, overseeing a massive diplomatic mission through a network of fortified, self-sufficient installations.
After the troops have left, the U.S. presence in Iraq-which peaked at 170,000-will number between 15,000 and 16,000, including federal employees and private contractors.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
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