Good news. There’s a turning point in the war. Just like the last four times Obama pretended to withdraw from somewhere.
Marking what he called a “turning point” for the U.S. military, President Barack Obama on Monday saluted troops returning from Afghanistan and declared the United States is moving past the time for large deployments aimed at nation building.
Obama noted that nearly 180,000 troops were deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan when he took office, and that number will be down to less than 15,000 at the end of the month.
“The time of deploying large ground forces with big military footprints to engage in nation building overseas, that’s coming to an end,” the commander in chief said in a speech to 3,000 at New Jersey’s Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, a launching point for deployments to Afghanistan.
So US troops will be staying on in Afghanistan past Obama’s old deadline. US troops are coming back to Iraq after Al Qaeda got its own country after his last withdrawal.
And Obama is trying to spin all that as a victory.
It’s a turning point when you win. Losing more people in Afghanistan than Bush did and then trying to claim that your partial withdrawal is a great achievement is low even for Obama.
Having to go back into Iraq and then patting yourself on the back for having reached a turning point because your boots on the ground aren’t officially there is cynical even for Obama.





















