Obama Halts Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal

Posted by | March 24, 2015 16:15 | Filed under: Politics Top Stories War & Peace

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The United States will keep its troop level at 9800 through the end of the year, and not reduce it to 5500 as had been planned.

The announcement comes as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani visits President Barack Obama and attends a series of meetings at the White House.

Ghani has requested that the U.S. consider adjusting its troop withdrawal timeline, with greater support from U.S. troops over the next few years during a transition to a complete withdrawal.

“The timeline for a withdrawal down to a embassy center presence, a normalization of our presence in Afghanistan, remains the end of 2016,” Obama said in a joint press conference with Ghani on Tuesday afternoon. “So that hasn’t changed. Our transition out of a combat role has not changed.”

Obama acknowledged that as long as troops were in the region, they would face risks in a “dangerous place.

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9 responses to Obama Halts Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal

  1. tracey marie March 24th, 2015 at 17:30

    watch the rwnj’s start screaming about the troops being put in danger or other such nonsense

    • jybarz March 25th, 2015 at 08:48

      Of course, they will… what else they’ll do… legislating?

  2. fahvel March 25th, 2015 at 05:39

    the number difference is irrelevant.

  3. jybarz March 25th, 2015 at 09:03

    Repukes criticized quick troops withdrawal before, now I’ll betcha they will criticize this slow troops withdrawal. Anything President Obama does, repukes are against even if they were for them before.

    • Tim Coolio March 25th, 2015 at 09:55

      Yes, Obama is taking his time and being careful mopping up the war mess the republicans left him, and if he pulls the troops out too fast and things go bad there then the right will attack him for that!

  4. John Tarter March 25th, 2015 at 09:44

    Well at least he learned something from his blunder in pulling the residual force from Irag.

    • jasperjava March 25th, 2015 at 12:06

      Wayout/Tarter is still proud of being ignorant and intellectually dishonest, I see.

  5. oldfart March 25th, 2015 at 10:45

    if world peace were to break out
    republicans would blame the president for it
    then demand more money for the defense department.

  6. fancypants March 26th, 2015 at 03:41

    so much for a declaration of war from the beginning. its easier to blame each following president for lack of preparation

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