Obama extends Afghanistan war to 2016..

[xiamiam]

Pitiful
and in the same day, extends immigration reform so as not to upset Republicans

Don't even try to make excuses ..there are none

[OKNancy]

1. Ridiculous hyperbole and twisting of facts

Under a new timetable outlined by Mr. Obama in the Rose Garden, the 32,000 American troops now in Afghanistan would be reduced to 9,800 after this year.

That number would be cut in half by the end of 2015, and by the end of 2016, there would be only a vestigial force to protect the embassy in Kabul and to help the Afghans with military purchases and other security matters. At the height of American involvement, in 2011, the United States had 101,000 troops in the country.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/world/asia/us-to-complete-afghan-pullout-by-end-of-2016-obama-to-say.html

[xiamiam]

2. call it whatever you want, his track record, campaign rhetoric vs actions are suspicious

Many here supported the surge. Did you? how did that work out? Billions perhaps trillions of wasted dollars later. We are in the war business..stop defending the indefensible.

[midnight]

3. Winner of the 2016 presidential election will become 3rd U.S. President to oversee the Afghan war!

"As you are all well aware, I do not support the idea of endless war," Obama said Thursday as he announced he was dropping plans to withdraw nearly all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by the end of next year. Instead, he'll leave office with at least 5,500 on the ground to help protect gains made during 14 years of war.

As a result, the winner of the 2016 presidential election will become the third American commander in chief to oversee the Afghan war.

The president's goal of ending the wars he inherited had already been tarnished by the return of U.S. forces to Iraq last year, 2½ years after they left. The troops are there to help Iraq fight the Islamic State, a mission Obama has said will likely outlast his presidency.

Obama never mentioned Iraq Thursday, but the tenuous situation there has no doubt hung over his decision-making on Afghanistan. Obama's critics contend the decision to withdraw from Iraq created the vacuum that allowed the Islamic State to thrive and warned leaving Afghanistan next year could have the same consequences."

http://www.startribune.com/officials-obama-to-keep-troops-in-afghanistan-beyond-2016/333008221/

I think our vets who are not getting their health care benefits, or homeless and or jobless need to be given more consideration towards takeing care of them before creating any more.