UNITED STATES SENATE VOTES TO END INVOLVEMENT IN AFGHANISTAN WAR FASTER............

After more than eleven years involvement fighting a war in Afghanistan, making it the longest fought war in American history, and with more and more of our citizens growing disgruntled with our drawn out participation costing American lives being killed by Afghan military we are therfe training and assisting; the United States Senate on Thursday voted 62-33, to speed up the withdrawal of American troops in meeting the Obama Administration's end of 2014, withdrawal date for American fighting forces.  Thirteen Republican Senators voted in favor of the non-binding, Sense of the Senate Resolution, including six term, retiring Indiana U.S. Senator Richard Lugar, of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.  Even after the current withdrawal is completed as many as 68,000 American troops are slated to remain in Afghanistan in a transitional mode after cessation of American military involvement.  Leading the way for the Resolution voted on in the affirmative yesterday was U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, Democrat of Oregon............Fr.  Troy