Been there, done that.
"Sharper US drawdown in Afghanistan is considered" by New York Times / June 6, 2011
WASHINGTON — President Obama’s national security team is contemplating troop reductions in Afghanistan that would be steeper than those discussed even a few weeks ago, with some officials arguing that such a change is justified by the rising cost of the war and the death of Osama bin Laden, which they called new “strategic considerations.’’
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"Afghan drawdown to be ‘significant’'; Military aides urge caution" June 07, 2011|By Ben Feller, Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Obama is under pressure on the issue as public support for the Afghan war remains low and congressional pressure for a faster exit mounts, but defense officials are urging him not to pull troops home quickly for risk of undermining tenuous security gains or influencing allies to remove their own troops with haste....
Sorry, but support is not low, it is NONEXISTENT here in WAR-WEARY AmeriKa!!!
The president and his war advisers met for two hours yesterday to review the long, costly war launched after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America. The killing of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden in an American raid in Pakistan last month has hastened calls by many in Congress to bring an end to the war....
Bin Laden is getting more press now than he did in ten years.
And when the AmeriKan media constantly repeats something you know it is a lie.
See: Sunday Globe Special: bin Laden's Bunker
Bin Laden Stories Show AmeriKan Media Not to be Believed
I will never believe them again.
A NATO service member was killed by a pipe bomb yesterday in southern Afghanistan, where violence is increasing as the poppy harvest ends and the Taliban turn opium profits into payments for fighters.
See: U.S. Gardening in Afghanistan
Yeah, whose tending that garden again?
A day earlier, another coalition service member was killed in a roadside bomb attack. NATO has provided no other details about the attacks or the identities of the dead.
Two NATO crew members died when their helicopter crashed on Sunday. The alliance is investigating the crash.
In the southern province of Helmand, the world’s leading opium producer and the Taliban’s profit center, NATO officials say insurgents are regrouping and fighting to retake key cities and towns they lost during clearing operations by US Marines during the past year.
See: Taliban Give and Take
Doubts About Afghanistan
Taliban Spreading Suicide in Afghanistan
Hey, what is a few more lies on a s*** pile of them, huh?
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Update: Afghan nation-building programs not sustainable, report says
In other words, we can't leave.
