years since he gave that speech. and now after 12 years of combat, more than 2,300 americans killed, over 19,000 wounded in action, three quarters of a trillion dollars in military spending just for that country, ten medal of honor recipients and there s about to become an 11th, the president is playing out his exit strategy for america s longest war. america s combat mission will be over by the end of this year. starting next year, afghans will be fully responsible for securing their country. american personnel will be in an advisory role. we will no longer patrol afghan cities or towns, mountains or valleys. that is task for the afghan people. but there will be a significant u.s. military presence in the country for at least the next two years. currently there are 32,000 troops in afghanistan. the president s plan calls for a
casualties in afghanistan have happened under barack obama s watch. since the war in afghanistan started, 74% of our troops have been killed since 2009 under his watch so i think that we can t ignore that, especially on memorial day. president obama has a habit going into places where it s libya or egypt, creating a problem and never having an exit strategy. we ll hear about that on wednesday from him but we still don t know what is going to happen, who is going to fill the vacuum. i think president hamid karzai should be worried about his own safety considering the united states is going to be leaving at the ends of the year. katie brings up his traffic record and there s the syria record, the indecision that many argue emboldens russia. i would love to know pete s thought on this. are we at a point where a shrinking physical military, change in tactics for using drones and technology, so on and so forth and also this
climate change, whether that made the storm bigger or changed the way it happened, but what we do know is that the sea levels are already higher than they were historically because of climate change. when there is a flood or storm surge, it s much higher than it was or would have been previously. all right. well, from the huffington post , kate shepard, thank you. appreciate it. thank you. donald sterling may have come up with an exit strategy in its battle with the nba. what does the league s top star think about it? will you help us find a new house for you and your brother?
mentality, then you take a hard line approach until you re dead basically. richard nix on and the coverup and the breakup of the water gen dwaet type thing. until he is dead, donald sterling is going to say that hey, this wasn t me, and if it comes out it is him, i didn t mean to say it that way. he ll continue to alibi right down to the end because that is his personality. or l.z., is this donald sterling trying to come up with an exit strategy in we re not hearing from him, not seeing him because now he s trying to figure out all right, how do i gracefully let go of the team? you know, i don t know if he s away trying to figure out a plan to get out of this but what i will tell you is the media and americans in general have a short attention span. perhaps what he s hoping will happen is we sort of look at another shiny object. i got to tell you, having been observe ant about coaches i
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