Community | June 14, 2011 | 1 comment

Afghanistan: how many Americans will come home?

source: http://Examiner.com

Aimee_Kligman
July 2011 is getting closer. It is the time that US forces will begin to be drawn down from Afghanistan. That timetable was given by Barack Obama before Osama bin Laden met his demise. And if the mission is still to 'disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda', it would appear that our job is done. There was never a large contingency of al-Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan, as the US quickly learned that the real fight was across the border, in Pakistan. But not everybody is on the same page, as far as how many troops will be sent home and at what rate.

We currently have 100,000 American men and women in Afghanistan out of 140,000 total, the balance being NATO forces; if their effectiveness in Libya is any indication, they might as well go home. The war is costing the US $100 billion a year. We have been in the country for a decade. The Pentagon's neocons will tell you that it was the 'surge' in body count which helped NATO win significant battles against the Taliban in key regions of the country.

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1 comment // Afghanistan: how many Americans will come home?

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    • This reminds me of the very first car I purchased when I was old enough to drive. It was a 67' Chevy Impala convertible. Some readers may not know or remember what that car was like at the time, but it was simply gorgeous. There was only one problem: it was a lemon. I should have heeded the warning signs the moment I saw it in the lot: it was canary yellow. The engine and the transmissions were replaced, and a host of other 'minor' things. I then painted the car red. It was still a lemon. The failure was not dumping the car as soon as the transmission died. And the cost would have been greatly reduced.

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