Obama Moves Afghan Troop Pullout Back Once Again - Now To End Of 2016 ~ THE 5TH ESTATE ASIA

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Obama Moves Afghan Troop Pullout Back Once Again - Now To End Of 2016

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Serial Liar Obama now says "2014 is a pivotal year, we will conclude our combat mission" - what happened to the "total pullout" in 2014; WSJ, "mainstream media" frauds cover once more for White House mass-murderer of U.S. military personnel

WALL STREET JOURNAL

By Adam Entous, Julian E. Barnes and Carol E. Lee

05/27/2014

WASHINGTON—

President Barack Obama has decided to keep nearly 10,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan after 2014, but then quickly pull them out over two years, the White House said Tuesday.

Carnage just continues as Obama moves pullout date back again

Mr. Obama plans to make the long-awaited troop announcement in a White House statement at 2:45 p.m. Tuesday, officials said, coming after a visit to Afghanistan over the weekend and ahead of a major foreign policy speech on Wednesday at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Mr. Obama's top military advisers and commanders in Afghanistan had recommended keeping 10,000 troops in place, but other powerful voices in the administration, including Vice President Joe Biden, urged him to leave a much smaller number.

The 9,800 troops that will remain in Afghanistan after 2014 will be divided into two missions, one charged with conducting training and another focused on conducting counterterrorism operations, a senior administration official said.

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Top U.S. commanders had warned the White House that a presence of less than 10,000 troops would make it difficult for the U.S. to secure bases in key areas of the country where U.S. and Western trainers, diplomats and spies would do their work.

The U.S. troop presence still hinges on the next Afghan president signing a bilateral security agreement, or BSA, with the U.S. U.S. officials say they are confident they will get the BSA because the two candidates competing for the presidency have said they would sign it.

Under the White House-backed plan, some 9,800 U.S. troops will be based in different parts of Afghanistan, together with other international partners, starting in the beginning of 2015.

By the end of 2015, the U.S. will reduce that presence by roughly half, consolidating U.S. troops in Kabul and at the Bagram Air Field.

By the end of 2016, the U.S. will withdrawal virtually all of the remaining troops. The White House said in a statement that "by the end of 2016, we will draw down to a normal Embassy presence with a security assistance office in Kabul, as we have done in Iraq."

Just under 33,000 U.S. troops are stationed in the country now, about one-third of the level during Mr. Obama's 2010-11 surge.

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