{"id":37799,"date":"2013-10-02T10:31:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T14:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37799"},"modified":"2013-10-02T10:31:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T14:31:02","slug":"karzai-thwarts-us-plans-for-combat-operations-after-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37799","title":{"rendered":"Karzai thwarts US plans for combat operations after 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy sends us a link to a Reuters<\/a> article about the ingrates in the Karzai Administration who are standing in the way of continued US combat operations after most of the US troops have left Afghanistan;<\/p>\n

But two issues have emerged as potential “deal breakers”, President Hamid Karzai’s spokesman, Aimal Faizi, told reporters late on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

One is a U.S. desire to run independent counter-terrorism missions in Afghanistan after 2014, Faizi said. The other was a U.S. refusal to agree to a wide-reaching promise to protect Afghanistan from foreign aggression.<\/p>\n

Karzai has long opposed operations in Afghanistan by U.S. special operations forces and the CIA, particularly when they run the risk of causing civilian casualties.<\/p>\n

“These things are strongly related to our sovereignty,” Faizi said. “We find it to be something that will definitely undermine our sovereignty, if we allow the U.S. forces to have the right to conduct unilateral military operations.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, see, this confusing to me – on the one hand, the Afghans don’t want US troops to run independent operations and, on the other hand, they want us to defend them from foreign aggression. It seems to me that they’re just a little bit related. Of course, the Obama Administration is just as confusing in their desire to run their own military operations, but not wanting a security agreement.<\/p>\n

I know that the Obama Administration doesn’t want a repeat of the Nixon’s Administration’s promise to defend South Vietnam from foreign aggression when they had no intention to keep that promise and let North Vietnam run all over the South Vietnamese Army.<\/p>\n

And Karzai isn’t really worried about it, because he plans on being in a villa in France soon.<\/p>\n

When asked what would happen if an agreement between Karzai and Obama could not be reached, Faizi repeated what Karzai has recently said, that the next government could deal with it.<\/p>\n

“We still believe that there will be time for the next government to work on this with the U.S., if progress is not made before the elections.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, so pull the troops out today since obviously the Karzai government isn’t interested in the country’s security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andy sends us a link to a Reuters article about the ingrates in the Karzai Administration … Karzai thwarts US plans for combat operations after 2014<\/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-37799","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\/37799","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=37799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}