{"id":34921,"date":"2013-04-04T11:06:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T15:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34921"},"modified":"2013-04-04T11:07:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T15:07:06","slug":"afgans-plan-withdrawal-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34921","title":{"rendered":"Afghans plan withdrawal strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the US public breathlessly watches Jay Leno withdraw from NBC next year, Afghans are quietly planning their own withdrawal from their country, according to the LA Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The wealthy are buying second homes abroad and moving huge amounts of money out of Afghanistan, fearing that security will deteriorate and the economy will collapse. Others are applying to study overseas, seeking invitations from relatives abroad or risking their lives trying to get into countries illegally.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Everything has stopped,” said Elyas Faizi of Blue House Real Estate. “No one can sell. No one is buying.”<\/p>\n

Some of his clients are snapping up apartments and villas in Dubai on the Persian Gulf, where wealthy Afghans have long sought sanctuary. The number of Afghans buying property there jumped in 2011 and 2012, many paying in cash, according to local brokers.<\/p>\n

“I think they wanted to have a Plan B in place,” said Parvees Gafur, chief executive of Propsquare Real Estate in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, ’cause Plan A – take the Americans for every penny instead of trying to rebuild your country – kind of went to shit. So the cycle continues. Meanwhile, in Farah Provence, 9 Taliban wearing suicide vests attacked a court house in an attempt to free more than 12 comrades killing about 44 people, according to reports from the Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The attack began when two assailants blew themselves up inside one of the vehicles while the others jumped out and ran toward the courthouse and prosecutor\u2019s office, provincial police chief Agha Noor Kemtoz said. Guards opened fire, killing one of the attackers, as the others engaged in a fierce gunbattle that left civil servants and government officials holed up in their offices.<\/p>\n

Other civilians fled to the basement of the courthouse, where gunmen found them and killed 21 people, officials said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The New York Post<\/a> reports more than 50 dead. Bloomberg<\/a> blames the Obama Administration for being “opaque” as far as their plans for Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Afghanistan right now there\u2019s a huge amount of anxiety about the scale and nature of the U.S. commitment long-term,\u201d Obama\u2019s former Undersecretary of Defense Michele Flournoy, who was on the trip last month and was the Pentagon\u2019s third highest- ranking official, said in an interview.<\/p>\n

She said spelling out U.S. intentions, including how many troops will stay, would \u201creduce counterproductive hedging behavior on the part of various parties in Afghanistan and in the broader region.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But, since the intention of this administration was to merely withdraw, I don’t they’ve been opaque at all. Well, withdraw under a drone umbrella, so he still looks tough. How that helps Afghans, I have no idea. <\/p>\n

Not only are the Taliban making their way back to Afghanistan, the Christian Science Monitor<\/a> reports that the Russians may be headed back there, too;<\/p>\n

Moscow is extremely worried “that any escalation of the situation in Afghanistan after NATO troops pull out in 2014 could have a negative impact on the security of both Russia and other European nations,” he added.<\/p>\n

Russian experts insist that it’s not an attempt to overcome Russia’s own version of the “Vietnam syndrome” \u2013 an agonized folk memory of the decade-long war in Afghanistan that arguably brought down the Soviet Union. Rather, they say the new engagement will be limited to commercial obligations, negotiated with NATO before it pulls most of its forces out, and will absolutely not involve any active military role.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, they are adamant that no Russian troops will be involved…well, until the first time unprotected Russian citizens get exploded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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