Yesterday, we read how Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai told his own elders’ council how he was ignoring their advice to sign a new security agreement with the US. Well, today, we learn that he dumped a bunch of new conditions on Susan Rice when she met with Afghanistan officials. From Fox News;<\/p>\n
One new demand was that the United States should address a suggestion by the Loya Jirga that all Afghan prisoners be released from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.<\/p>\n
According to the statement, Karzai “said the United States of America should respond to the suggestion mentioned in the resolution of the Loya Jirga to free all the afghan prisoners in Guantanamo.”<\/p>\n
There are nearly 20 Afghans currently being held at the American facility in Cuba.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yeah, well, that’d be cool, except that Aghanistan has had several successful jail breaks among their own prisons, so we just might as well drop the Guantanamo Afghans from aircraft over the country, which isn’t a bad idea actually. So, Rice threatened to remove all US troops from the shithole next year;<\/p>\n
The White House said Monday that Rice responded by saying this would mean the U.S. would then start planning to pull out all its forces after 2014, adding that a signed agreement is necessary to plan for thousands of troops to stay in the country to train and mentor Afghan security forces to face the Taliban.<\/p>\n
“Without a prompt signature, the U.S. would have no choice but to initiate planning for a post-2014 future in which there would be no U.S. or NATO troop presence in Afghanistan,” she told the Afghan president.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That’s not a bad idea, either. But it evidence of the incompetence of this administration. They couldn’t secure a place for US troops in Iraq so they could avoid the violence they’re experiencing now. The Obama Administration is currently discussing how we can use US forces to help Iraq secure their people. And now this administration is going to set us up in Afghanistan the same way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"