cynical175 - Why the end of next year?  Because due to President Obama's Failed Foreign Policies since March 2009, President Obama lost the US Military Logistics Support Bases at Pakistan Required to support the United Nation's Mission at LANDLOCKED US Ally Afghanistan; without these US Military Logistics Support Bases at Pakistan the Unsupportable United Nation's Coalition Must Abandon LANDLOCKED US Ally Afghanistan to get massacred again by the Fundamentalist Islamic Taliban NLT 2014.  cynical175 - Pull them out NOW!  President Obama signed an Agreement with President Karzai for the US Military to remain at US Ally Afghanistan Indefinitely, changed from 2024.  plain bob - hint ; ; he's try'n to keep them safe in a foreign country...  1. Since April 2009 President Obama as Commander In Chief Ordered (No US Congressional Approval Required) US Military Budget Cuts, while the US Military was engaged in Two Wars (Afghanistan and Iraq) and President Obama's Secret Wars.  a. US Military Lost Funding for Maintenance (Aircraft, Ships, Submarines, Vehicles, Facilities, etc.). US Military Personnel were scrounging repair parts from IED destroyed vehicles. Decreased numbers of CAS (Close Air Support) Missions to support Combat Ground Forces. Unnecessary Deaths of US Citizens of the US Military. Unnecessary Deaths of US Citizens of the US Military.  b. US Military Lost Funding for Training. Unnecessary Deaths of US Citizens of the US Military.  c. US Military Lost Funding for Sustainment (Ammunition, Fuel, Food, etc.). To the point that US Civilians, US Military Families of Deployed US Military, US Corporations were buying and sending US Military Body Armor, Helmets, Uniforms, Boots, Canned Food, Repair Parts, High Capacity Magazines for M16s/M4s, Medical Supplies, etc.; this is still happening (got worse). Unnecessary Deaths of US Citizens of the US Military.  2. President Obama as Commander In Chief Ordered (No US Congressional Approval Required) a Reduction In Forces (RIF) of the US Military of 90, 000 US Military Personnel and Unemployment of 108, 000 US DOD Civilians. In protest Secretary of Defense Gates tendered his Letter of Resignation.  Motive to pay for his previously not budgeted for $2.5 Trillion ACA.  In July 2011 President Obama gives Senator Harry Reid his Demand for "Across the Board Budget Cuts" to all Previously Budgeted for Programs (like Medicare, Social Security, Food Stamps, etc.), Projects (like the US Army Corps of Engineer Infrastructure Projects within the US of Dams, Bridges, Interstates, Irrigation Canals, Dredging of Rivers and Streams, etc.), Agencies (like FEMA, Department of Education, Veteran's Affairs, etc.), including the chopping of the Benefits and Entitlements of the "47%" (2012 update 49%, 2013 update 51%, that's right President Obama made things WORSE, 1 in 7 US Citizens now on Public Assistance) to pay for his previously NOT Budgeted for $2.5 Trillion ACA.  3. President Obama as Commander In Chief Ordered (No US Congressional Approval Required) a 11% US Defense Budget Cut. Secretary of Defense Penetta, "A 10% (US) Defense Budget Cut will result in a million (US) Civilians becoming Unemployed" (Discussion about the US Military Defense Industrial Complex, not being able to be restarted like flipping a light switch).  Motive to pay for his previously not budgeted for $2.5 Trillion ACA.  4. President Obama as Commander In Chief Ordered (No US Congressional Approval Required) the US Military Mission changed from capable of conducting Two Wars and Contingency Missions (including UN Missions); to One War or a contingency mission; as the US Military Butchered by over 50%. In protest Secretary of Defense Penetta tendered his Letter of Resignation "The time has come for me to return home to my wife Sylvia, our three sons, their families, our six grandchildren, and my walnut farm -- dealing with a different set of nuts,"  Motive to pay for his previously not budgeted for $2.5 Trillion ACA.  Troops to Obama & Congress: STOP WRECKING OUR MILITARY. Article, March 04, 2013, Army Times, Air Force Times, Marine Corps Times, Navy Times, Federal Times (DOD Civilians) indicating the Cuts by Branch of Service.  5. UPDATE President Obama as Commander In Chief Ordered (No US Congressional Approval Required) another 110, 000 US Military Personnel to be RIF'ed and dumped like yesterday's garbage (no benefits). August 2013.  Previously, to check the box for Reelection, "Successful as Commander In Chief"; President Obama Ordered General McChrystal to implement the Obama War Plan to Win Afghanistan after Ordering General McKIernan Relieved of Command. The Obama War Plan was plagerized from the General McKiernan War Plan to Win Afghanistan, requiring a minimum of 90,000 US Millitary (Combatants). General McChrystal after reviewing the Obama War Plan requested 90,000 US Military, President Obama refused, so did the Democratic Party Controlled US Senate and US House of Representatives, pissed off at General McChrystal going to US Congress President Obama gave General a "Clear and Direct" Order to implement the Obama War Plan (plagerized from General McKIernan's War Plan). President Obama sent 1/3rd of the minimum required 90,000 US Military Combatantts, as 30,000; however President Obama also sent his US Civilians Surges to Iraq and Afghanistan of hundreds of thousands of US Civilian Non Combatants (almost 250, 000 Iraq, over 250,000 Afghanistan); this meant that US Military had to be pulled away from Combat to guard the US Civilian Non Combatants further decreasing the numbers available for the Obama War Plan. These US Civilians of President Obama's US Civilian Surges strained General McChrystal's Logistics and Supply Support to beyond the breaking point, as General McChrystal had to decide BurgerKing, Starbucks, Pizza, Mexican Food, etc. for the US Civilians or Ammunition, Fuel, Rations, etc. for the US Military; General McChrystal chose the Ammunition, Fuel, Rations, etc. with President Obama's Political Appointees, SOS Clinton, President Obama immediately condemning General McChrystal for denying the US Civilians their "Rights".  The President Obama War Plan to Win Afghanistan turned into the modern day version of the LTC Custer Little Big Horn.  President Obama's Political Appointee US Civilians on General McChrystal's High Level Staff witnessed the extremely large increase of Killed In Action of US Citizens of the US Military and Canadian Citizens of the Canadian Military, they start saying, "This Administration Does Not Know What The F**k It Is Doing".  The Reporting of the numbers of US Military Killed In Action at Afghanistan and Iraq are quietly silenced, as requested by President Obama, as excuse "matter of National Security" as Demoralizing to the US Military, and US.  At Iraq, the Islamic Shia Government of Iraq, tells President Obama, SOS Clinton, and US Department of State; No More Negotiations, the US Military Must Withdraw from Iraq. The Islamic Shia Iraqis Government will Not Negotiate a Status Of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with President Obama, SOS Clinton, nor the US Department of State; US Military will be prosecuted, tried in Islamic Courts, subject to, imprisoned and punished under Islamic Shariah Laws. Previously, President Obama, March 2009, stated his Foriegn Policies, that allowed the Fundamentalist Islamic Shia Republic of Iran to increase their Strategic Sphere of Influence Worldwide, to pressure the Islamic Shia Government of Iraq, get the US Military kicked out of Iraq.  President Obama's Secret Wars start to fail due to: President Obama's ongoing US Military Budget Cuts since April 2009; Reduction In Forces (RIFs) of the US Military; refusal to listen to the expertise and experience of his US Military Commanders and relieving them of Command; and during an arguement with Senator Lieberman that President Obama's Secret Wars were Illegal and Unfunded (No US Laws with US Congressional Appropriations) President Obama to win the arguements Officially Confirmed the US Military, CIA, etc. prescence at these Nations with General Petraeus having to Order an Emergency Extraction of Covert Operations at these Nations as previously redeployed from Afghanistan.  EddieTheKid - Obama doesn't care how many soldiers get killed. He's thinking about the 2014 election.  Exactly, just like previously all he was thinking about was 2013 Reelection.  What the International News Media Reported NOT the President Obama Monitoring and Cenorship of All US Communications and Without Warrant Mandatory Cooperation of All US Communications Providers; this is why President Obama has lost Credibility Internationally:  President Obama's Reelection Campaign, "Osama Bin Laden Is Dead, GM Is Alive", that Inflamed the Islamic World to Violence against the US. The Imams at the Mosques Worldwide stating "Obama Declared War Against Muslims (Islam)".  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TikEcT1DgEU (Uncensored Tunisian TV, Fars News, and most other Islamic Nations TV Stations).  The over 1.5 Billion Islamic Believers Worldwide as a cohesive Force screaming, "Obama, Obama, We Are All Osama". The Fundamentalist Islamic Muslim Brotherhood starts attacking the US Embassy Cairo, Egypt.  The "Libyan Rebels" Supported by President Obama are Al Quada Saudi Arabia (AQ), Al Quada Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Al Quada Syria (AQS), Al Quada Yemen (AQY), Hezbollah, Al Quada Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), etc. that went to US Ally Libya to Murder US Ally President Gaddaffi the Collaborator to the Christians, Jews, Unbelievers, became Ansar Al Shariah (Ansar Alshariaa).  The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group became the Libyan Government recognized by President Obama. The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group were previously killing US Military at Iraq.  Ansar Al Shariah then planned the Attack of the US Consulate Benghazi to coincide with Islam's Greatest Defeat of the Great Satan (US), 9/11, by their Greatest (Modern Day) Holy Warrior of Islam, Osama Bin Laden.  President Obama previously (Feb, before the start of the "Libyan Civil War", Feb 17) Ordered SOS Clinton, "Low US Presence at Libya" to deny the Recommendations of LTC Wood to Upgrade Security at the US Embassy Tripoli and US Consulate Benghazi, especially the use of US Military Security Forces and NOT Libyan Security Forces (Libyan February 17 Brigade).  To deny the demands of the Commander US AFRICOM, General Carter Ham, to send the US Military Forces of Operation Odyssey Dawn and Operation Unified Protector less than Two Hours away to stop the over 7 hour Attack of the US Consulate Benghazi and Rescue the US Citizens, President Obama Ordered General Carter Ham, "Low US Military Presence at Libya", President Obama then demands General Carter Ham's Letter of Resignation after General Carter Ham kept demanding President Obama Presidential Authorization. The International News Media rush to Headquarters US AFRICOM at Stuttgart Germany to interview why successful General Carter Ham was Relieved of Command of US AFRICOM.  President Obama has Ansar Al Shariah (Ansar Alshariaa) eliminated from the "talking points" along with Islam, etc.. President Obama's Political Appointee US Ambassador to the United Nations announces because of Mohammad video. President Obama and US loss of Credibility Internationally as everyone else of other Nations already saw their own Nation's News Reports in their own languages.  Facts: The USAF Special Operations Wing AC-130Ws of Operation Odyssey Dawn and Unified Protector were fully fueled and armed, less than one hour away (faster than the RQ (Unarmed Reconnaissance Drones) sent); the RQs (Unarmed Reconnaissance Drones) sent came from the same Base that the MQs (Armed Drones) were still at; the Ex USN SEALs of US Ambassador Stevens did have Laser Target Designators for precision guidance of Airstrikes by the USAF AC-130Ws, and MQs (Armed Drones) and being Ex USN SEALs were trained and experienced to use the Laser Designators on their M-4s/M-16s.  SOS Clinton's, "Funding was not the Issue". The "Issue" was President Obama's Ordered "Low US Presence at Libya".  Unnecessary Deaths of US Citizens and Pro US Libyan Citizens Caused by President Obama, especially attacking a US Ally, with the Resulting destabilization of Entire Africa. Decades to Centuries of Weapons seized by the Holy Warriors of Islam from the Libyan Military Depots at Hight Razma Benghazi. US Ally President Gaddaffi previously as part of the Negotiations of President Bush's SOS Condeleezza Rice to become a US Ally was to Order his Libyan Military Forces to aggressively fight the Holy Warriors of Islam at US Ally Libya, this kept the Millions of Holy Warriors of Islam stuck at US Ally Libya without the US spending the lives of US Citizens of the US Military nor the US Citizens Money.  She (SOS Clinton) did say that there is no doubt that Algerian terrorists have weapons they obtained from depots in Libya that were opened up and "liberated" after the dictator Moammar Gadhafi was toppled, with U.S. and NATO help, in 2011.  President Gaddaffi became a US Ally as negotiate by President Bush's SOS Condeleezza Rice reports "Increased Al Quada Activities, immediately President Obama chopped all US Support per US Agreements and US Treaties, etc. as President Obama's Supported "Libyan Rebels" of Al Quada Saudi Arabia (AQ), Al Quada Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Al Quada Syria (AQS), Al Quada Yemen (AQY), Hezbollah, Al Quada Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), etc. that went to US Ally Libya to Murder US Ally President Gaddaffi the Collaborator to the Christians, Jews, Unbelievers. The "Libyan Rebels" stated their Strategic Goals: (why Benghazi) a. Seize the Decades to Centuries of Libyan Military Weapons, Ammunition, and Military Equipment at the Hight Razma Libyan Military Depots to Attack the rest of Africa.; b. Release the Holy Warriors of Islam at President Gaddaffi's Prisons transferred by President Obama from Guantanamo.; c. Seize the 20,000 portable shoulder launched SA-7 anti aircraft missiles to shoot down US Commerical Aircraft (Passenger and Cargo) "to Cripple the US Economy".  In violation of US Law, that RESTRICTS and LIMITS, the Presidential War Power, 1973 War Powers Resolution, President Obama as Commander In Chief Orders the US Military (Commander US AFRICOM, General Carter Ham) to Attack US Ally Libya. After the first US Airstrikes and US Cruise Missile Attacks, SOS Clinton appologized to US Congress (Both Houses) on behalf of President Obama, for Violating US Law 1973 War Powers Resolution. Since February before the start of the "Libyan Civil War" (February 17) LTC Wood and his US Army Special Forces Teams are at US Ally Libya, "US Military Boots on the Ground". Usually to prevent the deaths of innocent civilians and collateral damage (creation of more Enemies of the US) US Military Asymmetric Warfare Forces (aka Special Warfare) are sent in prior to any US Airstrikes or US Cruise Missile Attacks to accomplish Targeting and Target Damage Assessments, and when necessary Rescue any downed Aviators (maybe contingency mission of locating and termination of a high valued target), unclassifed information "outed" by Senator Lieberman pertaining to President Obama's Secret Wars as Illegal (no US Laws, like President Clinton and President Bush had) and Unfunded (no US Laws with US Congressional Appropriations, like President Clinton (H.R.4655 "Iraqis Liberation Act of 1998") and President Bush (2002 Iraq War Resolution) had for Iraq and Afghanistan.). BBC, and Censored from US News AP Reports.  Chancellor Merkel of Germany sees how insane (verruckt) this is for US President Obama to be attacking a US Ally (US Ally President Gaddaffi, US Ally Libya) and refused to have her German Military NATO Forces involved (German TV, ZDF, ARD. Newspapers Zeitung, Bild, etc.).
Three U.S. soldiers were killed Sunday by insurgents in eastern Afghanistan, and several were wounded, military officials said.