Biden seems ready to extend US
troop presence in Afghanistan
Posted By: IowaDad, 4/8/2021 6:01:39 AM
WASHINGTON — Without coming right out and saying it, President Joe Biden seems ready to let lapse a May 1 deadline for completing a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Orderly withdrawals take time, and Biden is running out of it. Biden has inched so close to the deadline that his indecision amounts almost to a decision to put off, at least for a number of months, a pullout of the remaining 2,500 troops and continue supporting the Afghan military at the risk of a Taliban backlash.
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It's hard to bring troops home if you tell them to stay there! Which raises an interesting question: why do Democrats adore endless wars?