Goal of Getting US Troops Out of 2 Wars Eludes Obama

When President Obama leaves office, he'll hand his successor military conflicts in the countries where he promised to end prolonged war: Afghanistan and Iraq.

U.S. Army soldiers of the East Africa Response Force (EARF), a Djibouti-based joint team assigned to Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, prepare to load onto a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, to support with an ordered departure of personnel from Juba, South Sudan, on Dec. 18, 2013. Tech. Sgt. Micah Theurich/U.S. Air Force/AP

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