polgara
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I think if keeping 10,000 troops in Afghanistan to train and help equip the Afghan military to defend themselves and stand on their own two feet so we can leave at sometime in the future it is worth. A train the trainers type program. But it shouldn't take ten years to make this happen, to accomplish that mission. This leaves me with a sneaking suspicion that we, the good old USA want our troops there for another reason. Perhaps a geopolitical reason, a home base of sorts. But when it comes to politicians, they always have sneaky agendas and the state purpose of something usually isn't.
:agree: I find it ironic that we can take young men and women from any locale in this country, send them to a "boot camp" - consider them sufficiently trained in months to be sent to hot spots overseas , but Afghanistan is going to take years? Really? Yeah, that's believable - not!
Greetings, Pero. :2wave: