{"id":29143,"date":"2012-03-15T10:52:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T14:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29143"},"modified":"2012-03-15T10:56:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T14:56:53","slug":"karzai-wants-that-troops-pulled-back-from-villages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29143","title":{"rendered":"Karzai wants troops pulled back from villages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, so all of those apologies and making excuses for Afghans who are murdering our troops in their bases have provoked Karzai to turn on us and demand that Panetta withdraw US forces from the villages into their bases. Yeah, who needs to be near their enemy in order to fight them? (Fox News<\/a> link);<\/p>\n

Karzai asked the U.S. to withdraw its troops from Afghan villages and to confine them to bases following a shooting rampage by a U.S. staff sergeant that killed 16 civilians.<\/p>\n

The dramatic request, which Karzai’s office said was made during a meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, would — if accepted — essentially end the US combat role just as the annual Taliban spring offensive begins.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the Taliban was quick to follow on the Afghan President’s heels;<\/p>\n

Within minutes of Karzai’s statement, the Taliban declared it was suspending their negotiations with the US because the US “turned back on its promises,” such as the release of Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, so much for being the only rational actor in the room. The US should begin immediate plans for withdrawals in the next few weeks. If Karzai wants us pulled out of the villages, pull them all the way back home. Why waste one more life in the cluster fuck that the Obama Administration has made of the Afghanistan War? Firing top generals, half-assed granting their requests, and putting his faith in Bite Me Biden’s strategy was always going to end this way. If our allies and our enemies think that they can exercise sway over our strategies, it’s no strategy at all.<\/p>\n

To quote one of my recent spammers; I\u2019m terribly multitudinous to here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yeah, so all of those apologies and making excuses for Afghans who are murdering our troops … Karzai wants troops pulled back from villages<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}