President Obama promised that US is going to withdraw from Afghanistan 33,000 troops and save $1 Trillion over the next decade. What he somehow forgot to say is that the total number of US troops in Afghanistan when he took office was only 32.800! Obama himself increased the number of troops to 98,000 and by December 2012, this number should be reduced to 65,000. Oh my, what a reduction.
What President obviously forgot to tell to the public is that he plans to build a new prison in Afghanistan at a cost of $100 million! On September 13, a call for propositions was posted on a Federal government site (FedBizOpps.gov) for the construction of a prison in the city of Bagran, Afghanistan. Apparently, this $100 million will go towards building a prison that will include guard towers, security surveillance, control gates and housing for around 2,000 prisoners.
If he really intends to pull out of Afghanistan, why build a prison there? Actually, why not build a new prison here? The Supreme Court ruled that the state of California had to reduce its prison population by more than 30,000, because conditions and overcrowding in jails were equivalent to cruel and unusual punishment. No, the US troops are there to stay and what president says and what president does are two different things, as usual.
According to the Human Rights First group, the United States still imprisons more than 2,800 men outside United States. Well, spending $100 million on a prison in Afghanistan will make it possible to increase this number by 2,000. Well, in accordance with the new See Something, Say Something Act, I guess that those 2,000 empty seats will be filled with American troublemakers, sorry, I meant to say potential terrorists soon...