Obama’s Afghanistan plan gets mixed reviews from grunts at Fort Campbell
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"CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. Pfc. Rob Nunez was gulping Miller Lite from a plastic cup when the subject of President Obama's plan for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan came up: 10,000 troops were being pulled out this year, said a friend at a roadside bar on the fringes of the Fort Campbell Army base. The rest of the 33,000 surge troops would leave in 2012.
"Nunez swallowed his beer, let out a stream of profanity before landing on a sentence that he repeats a lot these days. It's worthless, and it's never going to end.
"He had just returned from one of the war's most terrifying corners to a base that has shouldered much of the U.S. troop surge. In the past 18 months, more than 20,000 Fort Campbell soldiers have cycled through Afghanistan; 131 have been killed."
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"Obama’s Afghanistan plan gets mixed reviews from grunts at Fort Campbell", La Clé des Langues [en ligne], Lyon, ENS de LYON/DGESCO (ISSN 2107-7029), juin 2011. Consulté le 20/04/2024. URL: https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/archives/archives-revue-de-presse/obama-s-afghanistan-plan-gets-mixed-reviews-from-grunts-at-fort-campbell