{"id":36310,"date":"2013-06-19T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36310"},"modified":"2013-06-19T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T10:30:00","slug":"karzai-pouts-takes-ball-goes-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36310","title":{"rendered":"Karzai pouts, takes ball, goes home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ap.stripes.com\/dynamic\/stories\/A\/AS_AFGHANISTAN?SITE=DCSAS&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&#038;CTIME=2013-06-19-04-08-34\">The Associated Press<\/a> reports that Afghan President Zarzai threw a tantrum yesterday when it was reported that the US will conducting peace talks with the Taliban in Qatar. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In view of the contradiction between acts and the statements made by the United States of America in regard to the peace process, the Afghan government suspended the negotiations, currently underway in Kabul between Afghan and U.S. delegations on the bilateral security agreement,&#8221; Karzai&#8217;s statement said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing that Karzai is afraid that if the US strikes a deal with the Taliban, it will affect his retirement plan. Karzai has made himself irrelevant in the process &#8211; he takes in bags of untraceable cash from the US &#038; the UK and doesn&#8217;t hold accountable the Taliban for the violence in his country. He makes excuses for the green-on-blue attacks that are incoherent and ridiculous and has called the US the only terrorist organization in Afghanistan. Screw him. Withdraw yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>And, oh yeah, now that the Afghans are responsible for the security of our troops there, it looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/middle-east\/4-us-troops-killed-in-afghanistan-officials-say-1.226495\">four US troops were killed on Bagram airbase<\/a> yesterday by some sort of indirect fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that Afghan President Zarzai threw a tantrum yesterday when it was reported &hellip; <a title=\"Karzai pouts, takes ball, goes home\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36310\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Karzai pouts, takes ball, goes home<\/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-36310","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\/36310","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=36310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}