Top general recommends keeping more U.S. troops in Afghanistan

[unhappycamper]

http://hamptonroads.com/2015/10/top-general-recommends-keeping-more-us-troops-afghanistan

Top general recommends keeping more U.S. troops in Afghanistan
By Deb Riechmann
The Associated Press
© October 7, 2015

WASHINGTON

The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan recommended on Tuesday that President Barack Obama revise his plan and keep more than 1,000 U.S. troops in the country beyond 2016, just days after a deadly U.S. airstrike "mistakenly" hit a hospital during fierce fighting in the north.

Gen. John F. Campbell told Congress that conditions on the ground have changed since Obama announced his plan in 2014 to cut the current U.S. force of 9,800 to an embassy-based security contingent of about 1,000 in Kabul post-2016. Obama has vowed to a war-weary nation to end the U.S. war in Afghanistan and get American troops out by the time he leaves office in January 2017.

Campbell said, however, that Afghanistan remains engaged in a violent battle against the Taliban, military operations in Pakistan have pushed fighters, including those linked to al-Qaida, into eastern and northern Afghanistan and the emergence of Islamic State fighters has further complicated the conflict.

Campbell, the top commander of U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan, said that dropping to 1,000 troops would leave the United States with limited ability to train and assist the Afghan forces and even less capacity to conduct counterterrorism operations. He said the different options he has provided to his superiors are for troop levels beyond a normal embassy presence of about 1,000.



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We've seen this 'Peace With Honor' bullshit before. Just get out of Afghanistan.

[DashOneBravo]

1. Someone should ask the General

If they haven't gotten trained in 14 years why does he think more time will help.

Maybe it's time to get the fuck out.