Barack Obama and Afghanistan

In December of 2014, President Obama declared the end of our combat mission in Afghanistan.  Unfortunately, the Taliban didn’t agree, and they escalated their attacks against the Afghan government in 2015.  It is one of the problems of fighting a war based on a calendar, instead of what is actually happening on the ground.

Eventually, President Obama agreed to slow the withdrawal of our troops from Afghanistan and, in January of last year, to allow our troops to do more.  The fact that ISIS was showing up in Afghanistan gave the President an excuse for his action.  By June, President Obama was allowing our forces to attack the Taliban and help Afghan forces keep control of provincial capitals.

In other words, in addition to the 5,000 troops in Iraq and several hundred in Syria (how’s that for “no boots on the ground”), our forces are continuing to fight in Afghanistan, too.

The “Presidential Election from He**” ignored Afghanistan and the troops fighting there, just as President Obama has pretty much ignored them since saying their combat mission was over two years ago.

Even though our leaders are ignoring these men and women, and their mission, the people of the United States must not ignore them – because they are doing our work, fighting for us, in Afghanistan.