Obama wants to leave 9,800 U.S. troops in Afghanistan after 2014. Except for a “contingency force,” which will stay longer. Then we’ll be gone. Well, not really.
The Thing That Won’t Leave
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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Ted, I think you must have had something interrupt your train of thought when writing the comment. The “contingency force” *IS* the 9,800 troopers. Obama wants to “withdraw U.S. forces” except for those. (?)
Ted: This cartoon is in very bad taste.
Ted, Afghanistan borders on, among other countries, China (and what is more, on the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region with all the opportunities for exfiltration of assets to that province that geography offers). To sea, the US has China bottled up (how long that situation will prevail is another matter), but things don’t look quite so good (from Washington’s point of view) on land. Leave Afghanistan – not a chance !…
Loved, by the way, the way the orthography gets smaller and smaller, to mimic Mr Obama’s voice trailing away….
Henri
Thanks Ted,
Nice cartoon.
The adventurism of Obama in Afghanistan is in very bad taste.