{"id":38673,"date":"2013-12-01T07:41:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T12:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38673"},"modified":"2013-12-01T07:41:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T12:41:28","slug":"karzai-pushes-us-to-withdraw-completely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38673","title":{"rendered":"Karzai pushes US to withdraw completely"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chief Taliban spokesman in Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, is pushing the US into a “zero option” in regards to our presence in Afghanistan, according to the Washington Post<\/a>. Obviously, he’s trying to fund his 401k and holding his own country hostage at the same time.<\/p>\n

Tensions between Kabul and Washington intensified Friday when the U.S.-led military coalition acknowledged it had launched airstrikes the day before that killed a child and injured two women in southern Afghanistan. Karzai angrily billed the strike as further proof that the United States has little regard for the lives of Afghan civilians.<\/p>\n

U.S. officials signaled last week they were reasonably optimistic that Karzai would soon relent and sign the bilateral security agreement, which sets the rules for an enduring U.S. military presence after the U.N. mandate that governs its role expires in December 2014. But after Thursday\u2019s civilian casualties, Afghan officials said he was even more reluctant to sign the document promptly. <\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Some U.S. officials argue that Karzai appears to be drawing the process out to bolster his legacy at the end of his mandate, operating under the assumption that the threats of a full pullout are empty ones.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if he fully realizes the risks,\u201d Gen. Joseph E. Dunford Jr., the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, told the Wall Street Journal last week. \u201cHe certainly understands it from an Afghan perspective. I don\u2019t know if he fully appreciates what the implications are for the United States.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Karzai’s habit of criticizing accidental deaths of civilians and failure to criticize the intentional targeting of innocents has only influenced the terrorists in his country to hide behind the skirts of innocents when confronted with US force. Now, Karzai wants to forbid US troops from pursuing the enemy into houses to insure that the war lasts forever. Yeah, well, then it’s past time for us to leave and declare Karzai a terrorist and the Justice Department should seize his assets outside of Afghanistan so that he’s trapped there to enjoy the fruits of his labor on behalf of the Taliban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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