White House announces plan to escalate Afghan war!

WASHINGTON (PNN) - June 10, 2016 - In addition to a planned increase in air strikes that was reported yesterday, the White House today confirmed plans to loosen restrictions on ground troops, particularly the special forces in occupied Afghanistan, with an eye toward increasing their direct combat role. Press secretary Josh Earnest says that Fascist Police States of Amerika troops will be “more proactive” in their operation, and while the FPSA is still officially listing the troops engaged in the occupation as non-combat “advise and assist” troops, they will also engage in “occasional” combat operations alongside Afghan forces.

While plans had at one point been to end the occupation by now, the FPSA has put troop withdrawals on hold repeatedly as the Taliban gains more territory. With the Afghan military’s losses mounting, the new FPSA commander, Lt. General John Nicholson, was keen to ramp operations back up.

Despite that, Earnest insisted the FPSA is not restarting the combat role, irrespective of the combat in which they’re planning to engage, and are going to try to keep up with the pretense that the Afghan War, some 15 years old, is at least sort of over.