Eugene Robinson: End the Afghan mission now

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7. Of course there are exits over next couple years

The reduction will be 25%+ just over next few months, that's already planned.
10 thousand have already been removed

2014 was when withdrawal would be done, not when it would start. Later last year they were already looking at speeding that up.
This "we don’t rush for the exits" is generally a good idea, not a safe way to go
but I hope it speeds up more than originally planned at least. Once they had that bad election we were in a no win situation there anyway, having to supporting a corrupt regime.

But what I hope really changes is how they keep putting people back in rotation that should not be, playing down PTSD or brain injury.

That seems to be the case with this guy. He was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury in 2010 and then determined to be fit for service.
This forever war makes them all the more careless about disregarding the obvious.