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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCLARIFICATION: US/Afghan agreement does NOT keep US troops in Afghanistan past 2014.
It says that the US will support Afghanistan's "social and economic development" after the US troops troops leave in 2014, including POSSIBLY, although not certainly, continuing to provide training for Afghan troops. However, it does not keep the US in a combat or occupation role after the already scheduled end of the war in 2014. In exchange for US support, Afghanistan makes commitments to strengthen government accountability and protect human rights of all Afghans, including women.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2018048900_afghanistan23.html
gateley
(62,683 posts)TheWraith
(24,331 posts)They put up a sub-headline claiming that the deal kept US troops there until 2024, when in fact it says no such thing.
former9thward
(31,802 posts)They will call it "training" aid and troops rather than combat.
Rosco T.
(6,496 posts)avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)How can we justify the blood lost, without spilling more blood if the Afghans can't do the job at that point? That has been the justification so far.
This is war will continue to be without end in some sort of fashion until the military industrial complex will allow us to leave.
TheWraith
(24,331 posts)And now we're not there anymore.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)I know the answer, I want to see if you know....
WillyT
(72,631 posts)Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002596994
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)TheWraith
(24,331 posts)Trying to count the electricians at the embassy as US soldiers is... kinda desperate and pathetic.
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)boxman15
(1,033 posts)Daniel537
(1,560 posts)Yeah, i'll take that to mean we will keep some troops there after all. The MIC lobby always wins out on these types of things.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)"The Agreement provides for the possibility of U.S. forces in Afghanistan after 2014, for the purposes of training Afghan Forces and targeting the remnants of al-Qaeda, and commits the United States and Afghanistan to initiate negotiations on a Bilateral Security Agreement to supersede our current Status of Forces Agreement. "
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/05/01/fact-sheet-us-afghanistan-strategic-partnership-agreement