The US military has no intention of withdrawing the remaining 9000 troops from Afghanistan after 2016. We’ve seen this mission creep before in Iraq In all three of the countries where the Obama administration declared US wars “over” in the past few years - Afghanistan,Iraq and Libya - the US military is expanding its presence or dropping bombs at an ever-increasing rate. And the government seems to be keeping the American public in the dark on the matter more than ever.
Pentagon leaders suggested this week that the US military wants to keep remaining 9800 troops in Afghanistan from withdrawing in 2016, despite the fact that the Obama administration declared combat operations in the country over” six months ago. The gradual extension of the Afghanistan War hasn’t been a secret to anyone who’s been paying close attention, or but sadly it has happened far absent from the pomp and circumstance of Obama’s now embarrassingly erroneous State of the Union announcement that the Afghanistan War had ended.
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Source: theguardian.com