Reply #9: The thing is we're probably not going to be out of them while Obama is in office [View All]

[MadHound]

Despite the much hyped withdrawal deadline of this August, we're still going to be keeping approximately fifty thousand troops in Iraq for "training" purposes and to help hunt down terrorists. In Afghanistan, sure, we're going to begin withdrawal next year, but when will that withdrawal be finished. From comments made in the past year and a half, Obama foresees the US still in Afghanistan three, five, even seven years from now, well beyond when he is out of office.

The pace of withdrawal isn't just maddeningly slow, in some ways it is non-existent.

We should simply pull out now, ASAP, but that's not going to happen.