{"id":38797,"date":"2013-12-10T09:50:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T14:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38797"},"modified":"2013-12-10T09:50:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T14:50:06","slug":"karzai-rails-against-us-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38797","title":{"rendered":"Karzai rails against US ‘threats’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Associated Press<\/a> reports that the Taliban chief spokesman, pretending to be President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai says that the US is threatening him because he won’t sign a document which allows US forces to remain in Afghanistan after 2014.<\/p>\n

In an interview published Tuesday by the French daily Le Monde, Karzai says the U.S. is “absolutely” acting like a colonial power in its attempts to force him to sign the bilateral security agreement by the end of this year. The paper quoted him as saying: “The threats they are making, `We won’t pay salaries, we’ll drive you into a civil war.’ These are threats.”<\/p>\n

Washington and NATO officials say the pact is critical to the plan to keep thousands of forces in Afghanistan after 2014 for a training and counterterrorism mission.<\/p>\n

Karzai says he backs the long-delayed security agreement but balks at signing it himself. Although a national assembly of 2,500 delegates known as the Loya Jirga endorsed the deal last month and backed a U.S. request that it be signed by the end of the year, Karzai is deferring that to his successor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, withholding funds from Karzai’s 401k are a threat. If the US wanted to threaten Karzai, they would have let Biden talk to him when the vice-president was in the neighborhood last weekend. Biden snubbed Karzai though. Biden has been snubbing me for a long time, and trust me, Hamid, life is good. Karzai doesn’t want us to kill insurgents, so there’s no good reason for us to stay in Afghanistan. That will be his legacy, so just leave, FFS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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