{"id":29426,"date":"2012-04-08T09:48:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T13:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29426"},"modified":"2012-04-08T09:48:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T13:48:57","slug":"night-raid-deal-reached-in-af","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29426","title":{"rendered":"Night raid deal reached in AF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/asia_pacific\/afghanistan-us-agree-on-deal-governing-special-operations-night-raids-after-long-talks\/2012\/04\/08\/gIQAmpHF3S_story.html?hpid=z1\">The Washington Post<\/a> reports that the US and Afghanistan have signed a compromise agreement on how the US will conduct night raids in that country, giving the Afghan government authority and approval power on how and when the raids will conducted;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The memorandum was signed in front of reporters by Kabul\u2019s Defense Minister Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak and the commander of U.S. forces, Gen. John Allen. It appeared to give important benefits to both sides: the document gives the Afghans authority over the raids and gives the Americans an Afghan partner that will now be held equally to account if there are civilian casualties or allegations of mistreatment.<\/p>\n<p>It also was a sign that Karzai may be willing to compromise on some of his conditions for a long-term pact. Americans and even some of his own advisers feared that his unyielding bargaining style would endanger the entire agreement, and along with it Afghanistan\u2019s long-term security.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given the fact that the Afghan government leaks like a sieve to the Taliban, I&#8217;m sure that the productivity and usefulness of these raids can only increase (that&#8217;s sarcasm, if you didn&#8217;t recognize it). We can also expect that every night raid will be an ambush. So, good job, Obama Administration. How many more US troops have to die for the Obama\/Biden 2012 campaign? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reports that the US and Afghanistan have signed a compromise agreement on how &hellip; <a title=\"Night raid deal reached in AF\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29426\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Night raid deal reached in AF<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29426","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=29426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}