So tell me again that we're ending the war in Afghanistan?

[NuclearDem]

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/19/21534305-endless-afghanistan-us-afghan-agreement-would-keep-troops-in-place-and-funds-flowing-perhaps-indefinitely

KABUL – While many Americans have been led to believe the war in Afghanistan will soon be over, a draft of a key U.S.-Afghan security deal obtained by NBC News shows the United States is prepared to maintain military outposts in Afghanistan for many years to come, and pay to support hundreds of thousands of Afghan security forces.

The wide-ranging document, still unsigned by the United States and Afghanistan, has the potential to commit thousands of American troops to Afghanistan and spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars.

The document outlines what appears to be the start of a new, open-ended military commitment in Afghanistan in the name of training and continuing to fight al-Qaeda. The war in Afghanistan doesn’t seem to be ending, but renewed under new, scaled-down U.S.-Afghan terms.

I would be angry, but I'm just sad at this point.

[pscot]

1. k&r

They quit worrying about what we want long ago.

[neverforget]

2. There's always money for war. For the people, not so much.

[NuclearDem]

3. Always money for a new colony or two.

[russspeakeasy]

4. Disgusting !

We've got kids going hungry, our infrastructure is falling apart .

[bluedeathray]

5. The meeting to decide America's continued presence in Afghanistan

By the Tribal Elders starts tomorrow. I hope 2 things:

1. I hope they decide to end America's continued occupation of Afghanistan.

2. I hope their decision carries weight.

The Afghanis being bribed with American tax dollars won't go quietly into the night. And the financial bonanza that this decision means for the MIC is huge, and won't be easily released by our politician's masters.

This will be wrapped in the flag and placed under "Our Nation's Security" for American consumption.

How is it that more people don't see that we've become less secure as the spending and debt have gone up??

As well as cost us much of our personal liberty and freedoms?

[scheming daemons]

6. "unsigned document" with "potential" to continue conflict

So this is another thing to set our hair on fire over that has not and probably wont happen?

[xchrom]

7. at a minimum -- so it appears -- 7,00 troops, could be more than 10,000 -- with bases

so how much is this going to cost?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. Bring our boys home and put them to work rebuilding our infrastructure

how hard is that to comprehend ...?

[hobbit709]

9. endless war