Lt. Gen. John Allen, the Marine who will most likely replace Gen. David Petraeus as the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, has pledged to request a slower drawdown of U.S. troops if he deems that conditions are deteriorating.
Hmmm..If I were a gambling man, I'd bet that he will make that request before September of next year. I could be wrong, of course.
But even if I am wrong, and 33,000 U.S. troops actually are withdrawn before the end of 2012, we'll still have about 68,000 American troops and 20,000 private security contractor personnel who work for the Department of Defense over there.
So any hope you might have had that the end of America's longest war could maybe be somewhere in sight -- we'll, just forget about that. War is the new normal, silly.
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| "Mmm, yeah, about that drawdown.. I'm probably going to have to go ahead and ask you to stay a few more years. Mmmkay?" " |
Hmmm..If I were a gambling man, I'd bet that he will make that request before September of next year. I could be wrong, of course.
But even if I am wrong, and 33,000 U.S. troops actually are withdrawn before the end of 2012, we'll still have about 68,000 American troops and 20,000 private security contractor personnel who work for the Department of Defense over there.
So any hope you might have had that the end of America's longest war could maybe be somewhere in sight -- we'll, just forget about that. War is the new normal, silly.
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