Reply #167: complete withdrawal or not

[davidswanson]

A few hundred commenters here and elsewhere are right that Obama has not announced that there will be no withdrawal. It's just gone from 16 months to a partial withdrawal by august, to a partial withdrawal by august that won't start until it's almost august -- and with no checks on these changes from congress or anywhere else, just discretion of the president or the generals. Unless there is push-back the delays will grow and grow, and completeness of any withdrawal will be scaled back. The SOFA requires ALL FORCES out by the end of next year and does not actually legalize any of them being there right now.