So the war will end on schedule as President Obama said. An agreement was signed today for 12,000 US troops to stay after December 31, 2014 for training, non-combat roles. So no more body bags coming home after January 1, 2015.
After 13 long long years of bloody war, America has brought stability, peace and freedom to Afghanistan!
IIRC we'll be paying around 8 billion per year for a few decades to rebuild, and of course, will continue with training Afghans ($60 billion having been spent in training them thus far). The country of course has no way to pay their salaries, but we'll continue to help them along.
And private contractors (no word on how many of those will stay) will be paid by US taxpayers to supplement the 12,000 troops there. (currently last I checked 67,000 of those).
Do we know how to win wars or what?
America, fuck yeah!
Looking back....just to see how well it all went when we first interfered in Afghanistan, when we supplied billion of dollars of weapons to unlikely allies, Islamist fundamentalists
A war fought with our gold, but with Afghan's blood. That went well, didn't it?