Obama's Failed Mission in Afghanistan

[ProSense]

17. What?

I don't need the President's statement

. . . to see clearly that the escalation of hundreds of thousands of NATO troops into Afghanistan had little to nothing to do with the efforts to corner and degrade the Taliban forces in Pakistan identified with al-Qaeda -- other than the forces which were stationed at the border to prevent the Pakistan Taliban from fleeing into Afghanistan as our drones bombed their encampments and compounds. The drone war is the primary offensive against 'al-Qaeda' in Pakistan. The military has admitted several times that most of the al-Qaeda fighters had fled to Pakistan long ago.

The ecalation didn't involve "hundreds of thousands" of troops. In fact, there are only 130,000 NATO troops, including about 90,000 U.S. troops, in the country.

France has about 3,600 troops in Afghanistan and recently announced they're pulling out.