It's official..we ended the war in Afghanistan. Well, except for.......... [View all]

[dixiegrrrrl]

Did we even call it a war?

So, Obama announces this past week, war over in Afghanistan.


An hour ago
Pentagon will call new US mission in Afghanistan 'Operation Freedom's Sentinel;' mission will involve counterterrorism and training, advising, assisting Afghans.

I guess they are hoping anyone over 50 has Olds Heimer's disease and does not remember how we were sold the lie of Viet Nam by calling troops "advisors".


so hurrah! We are now not at war in Iraq!
We are not at war in Afghanistan!
Droning Syria and Pakistan and Yemen and Algeria...that's not a war.
Honestly, it is not.
Those are Freedum drones.

But hey, I can overlook that, just thinking of all the money that can be spent on America's problems of homelessness, unemployment, etc.

Where's my happy dance icon...........????


UPDATE:
This piece from WSJ:
the Wall Street Journal reports that some 18,000 foreign troops, around 10,600 of them American, are staying in Afghanistan. The troops are allowed to remain under the terms of two security pacts the Afghan government signed with the US and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in September.