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October 17, 2015
Projected that just 1,000 will remain to protect our embassy. that changed with the presidents announcement on thursday. >> ive decided to maintain our current posture of 9800 troops in afghanistan through most of next year. maintaining our current posture through most of next year rather than a more rapid drawdown will allow us to sustain our efforts to train and assist afghan forces as they grow stronger. >> in january, the president promised that americas longest war would be over in just two...
October 16, 2015
As the commander in chief promised that all of those troops will likely have to stay. >> ive decided to maintain our posture of 9800 troops through most of next year, 2016. but maintaining our current posture through most of next year rather than a more rapid drawdown will allow us to sustain our efforts. colonel, good to see you tonight. this is an admission by president obama, admission of what? >> admission that hes planning to abandon afghanistan. lets be clear here. the basic reality, wha...
October 16, 2015
As the commander in chief promised that all of those troops will likely have to stay. >> ive decided to maintain our posture of 9800 troops through most of next year, 2016. but maintaining our current posture through most of next year rather than a more rapid drawdown will allow us to sustain our efforts. colonel, good to see you tonight. this is an admission by president obama, admission of what? >> admission that hes planning to abandon afghanistan. lets be clear here. the basic reality, wha...
October 15, 2015
Year rather than a more rapid drawdown will allow us to sustain our efforts to train and assist afghan forces as they go stronger. >> 9,800 troops will stay for most of 2016. the reason for this reversal of a planned pull out, afghan forces are not as strong as they need to be. those words coming from president obama earlier today. just a little more than a year after he made the announcement from the rose garden that the u.s. would be largely pulling out of afghanistan. and it is clear that tod...