http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ivan-eland/a-messy-endgame-to-the-af_b_5432364.html
Ivan Eland
Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty, The Independent Institute
A Messy Endgame to the Afghan War
President Obama has announced that all U.S. forces will be
withdrawn from Afghanistan by the end of 2016, just before he leaves
office. By taking this action, Obama is finally saying "touché" to a
military brass that he believed sandbagged him in upping the quantity of
forces needed for the troop surge in Afghanistan when he first took
office. This time, cleverly, Obama left the number of troops the
military wanted--about 10,000 troops--but only for two-and-a-half years
and then after that, cut off any possibility of a residual force that
could get into trouble there. Thus, Afghanistan will be the second
country from which Obama has completely withdrawn U.S. forces recently,
Iraq being the first.
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