In Secret, Obama Extends U.S. Role in Afghan Combat

[BrentWil]

Amazing Story.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/22/us/politics/in-secret-obama-extends-us-role-in-afghan-combat.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

President Obama signed a secret order in recent weeks authorizing a more expansive mission for the military in Afghanistan in 2015 than originally planned, a move that ensures American troops will have a direct role in fighting in the war-ravaged country for at least another year.

Mr. Obama’s order allows American forces to carry out missions against the Taliban and other militant groups threatening American troops or the Afghan government, a broader mission than the president described to the public earlier this year, according to several administration, military and congressional officials with knowledge of the decision. The new authorization also allows American jets, bombers and drones to support Afghan troops on combat missions.

So we will be doing combat missions in Afghanistan.

[PumpkinAle]

1. As the president said in the Rose Garden in May,

“I think Americans have learned that it’s harder to end wars than it is to begin them.”

No, Mr. President it is not. What is hard is to say no to the military industrial complex and all those warmongers on Capitol Hill.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. .

[RiverLover]

3. Its their problem, let them figure it out. We have problems here in the US.

Just ONCE, I would like to hear a US president say those words. And mean it.

[Autumn]

4. Shit, these wars will never end.

[amandabeech]

5. No outside power has ever been able to subdue Afghanistan, Mr. President.

The Afghans are going to have to sort this out for themselves, just like the people who live in the former Ottoman Empire.

No matter when we leave, the result will be the same, so we might as well leave now.

Bin Laden is dead, GM is alive, and we have the ACA (for now). But a big reason that I voted for Obama was because I thought that he was going to keep us out of unwinnable wars. This is very disappointing.

[RiverLover]

6. +1 ~nt

[truebrit71]

13. It's called the graveyard of empires for a reason...

...

[Agnosticsherbet]

7. I think they meant a "Not so secret order."

[woo me with science]

9. Same war, economic, and police state policies no matter which party is in power.

Of course he extends the US role in the Afghan conflict. Just as he has continued and expanded virtually every other major Bush war, economic, and police state policy.

One party, two faces.

We have united oligarchy, not gridlocked democracy. That's what the Princeton study revealed. Our form of government has changed. So much corporate money floods Washington now that the people have no influence on policy at all. We are ruled by an obscenely wealthy elite and their purchased corporate politicians in both parties.

We need to rally on policies, not party. No more corporate sellouts regardless of party. No more Third Way vultures in Democrat suits. No more lesser of two evils.

We need to become the 99 percent and stand against this garbage. We need to stop playing their manipulative partisan "lesser of two evils" game and rally behind someone like Bernie who recognizes and vows to fight to reverse what has been done to this formerly democratic nation.

[delrem]

12. +1

Thank you for your posts. Your focus in post after post is spot on.
Keep it up, it helps in every kind of way.

[tjl148]

15. +1

[MisterP]

10. 2003-9 we ignored Afghanistan for Iraq,

2009-13 we ignored Iraq for Afghanistan, now we're ignoring Afghanistan for Iraq again

[William769]

11. Well it can't be to big of a secret if it's in the New York times. nt

[Dreamer Tatum]

14. Gee why wasn't that on TV? nt

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

17. It's very challenging for a politician to admit we lost...again.

[woo me with science]

18. kick United oligarchy, not gridlocked democracy.

[woo me with science]

19. kick