Leaving Afghanistan

The US Army has spent years in Afghanistan and have nothing to show but a large number of deaths and an even larger bill from the war.


Bin Laden was found and killed. More than 1,964 American service men and women have lost their lives in the conflict. Cost of the war is now over $527 billion.


According to the New York Times, more than two thirds of Americans took a poll and voted that the US Army should not be in Afghanistan. The government has a plan to keep troops there until 2014, but many Afghans are planning on leaving the country because of American actions on their home soil. After a U.S. Army sergeant slaughtered sixteen Afghans the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, demanded that the US pull their troops before the year is over. (CNN)


An article that I read in The Telegraph says that the president has ordered some of the troops to leave Afghanistan but many still remain. It is rumored that the president is only doing so because of the upcoming election. It is obvious that the war is a vacuum to our money as a nation. Some see this as the president’s way of convincing the nation that he is concerned with our money and is doing everything possible to protect it.

The president should pull US troops out of Afghanistan. We are in the midst of a depression and we are constantly spending billions of dollars on something that could potentially end whenever we decide to do so. More lives as well as money will be spent if we continue to harass a nation that is no longer threatening us.