{"id":35521,"date":"2013-05-09T13:40:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T17:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35521"},"modified":"2013-05-09T21:04:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T01:04:12","slug":"zarzai-to-alow-us-to-keep-9-bases-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35521","title":{"rendered":"Karzai to allow US to keep 9 bases open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy and Jerry920 sent us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-202_162-57583626\/karzai-u.s-wants-to-keep-9-bases-in-afghanistan-after-2014\/\">links to the story<\/a> that Hamid Karzai told students at Kabul Universtiy that he&#8217;s willing to allow the US to keep 9 bases open after the &#8220;withdrawal&#8221; from Afghaistan next year;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The remarks were the first time the Afghan leader had offered any insight into ongoing talks over a deal that would outline American presence in Afghanistan after 2014.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Kabul bureau chief Mukhtar Ahmad reports that, according to Karzai, the U.S. wants to maintain bases in Kabul, Herat, Helmand, Shindand, Gardez, Mazar, Jalalabad, Kandahar and Bagram.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess he did the math and discovered that the taxes on his new mansion in the south of France are going to be higher than he thought and he&#8217;ll need a couple more years of socking away that CIA and MI6 cash they&#8217;ve been dropping off in his office recently. <\/p>\n<p>Karzai has painted the US as the biggest threat to stability in his country, yet he&#8217;s willing to let us stay? Damn decent of the fellow, ain&#8217;t it? There&#8217;s no reason to stay anymore &#8211; Karzai blames us for everything and this administration isn&#8217;t willing to fight the war the way it needs to be fought. So why are we trying to give the Taliban 9000 more targets?<\/p>\n<p>By the way, CBS says they don&#8217;t have an answer from the US to their questions about Karzai announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy and Jerry920 sent us links to the story that Hamid Karzai told students at Kabul &hellip; <a title=\"Karzai to allow US to keep 9 bases open\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35521\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Karzai to allow US to keep 9 bases open<\/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-35521","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\/35521","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=35521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}