Afghan President Again Demands An End To US Airstrikes, Says It's Condition For Security Deal

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

By PATRICK QUINN Associated Press
January 19, 2014 - 3:34 pm EST

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's president demanded Sunday that the United States no longer carry out military operations or airstrikes and must jump-start peace talks with the Taliban before his country signs a security deal to keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan after 2014.

President Hamid Karzai's deepening anti-American rhetoric comes as the Taliban intensifies its assaults ahead of the planned withdrawal and after Friday's militant raid on a popular Kabul restaurant, the deadliest single attack against foreign civilians in the course of the nearly 13-year U.S.-led war.

Although Karzai has made similar demands in the past, he has in recent weeks ratcheted up his condemnations of alleged U.S. failures as Afghans look fearfully ahead to an uncertain future.

Karzai made the statement after being presented with the findings of an investigation into a joint Afghan-U.S. military operation last week that resulted in civilian casualties which he blamed on a U.S. military air strike.

Read more: http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/855b40c6d2dd4531a5c2190fca40da1f/AS--Afghanistan

[Warren Stupidity]

1. well that isn't going to happen, we are drunk on drones.

[msongs]

2. pick up the toys and leave. it's is really that simple nt

[RC]

3. No, we have to find another 3rd world country to molest first.

The MIC needs their perks.

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. I hope President Hamid Karzai sticks to his guns, and stays alive.

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USA has been itching for a war with Iran for decades - Iraq was supposed to be the jumping off point, but the Iraqi government basically threw the USA's war machine out of the country -
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" But there is little question that the all-encompassing US military occupation of Iraq is over. After more than eight years of war, the Iraqi government finally said no more. Their refusal to grant US troops immunity from prosecution for potential war crimes was the deal-breaker that forced President Obama’s hand and made him pull out the last 30,000 troops he and his generals were hoping to keep in Iraq."

http://www.thenation.com/blog/173396/way-worse-dumb-war-iraq-ten-years-later# << much more at link
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US started building bases in Afghanistan in the 60's - they ain't gonna give them up easily, especially since they lost their attempt to make Iraq it's pawn in the PNAC/MIC agenda.

Closest comparison I can relate the USA's wars in the ME is to a dog that gets slapped by a porcupine - even though losing and suffering, they go back for more - Iraq was 10 years, Afghanistan over 12 years now and USA is still fumbling around - only succeeding in pissing off more countries.

I can't figure out how to copy and paste this map at the link I will provide below,

but just looking at the number of bases USA has, or has use of in Afghanistan,

right in Iran's back yard - looks ominous to me . . .

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2012/04/2012417131242767298.html

I can't see the USA pulling out anytime soon,

although much of the World, including myself, wish they would.

Whenever they do leave, I suspect an awful mess to be left behind - damaged lives, croplands and infrastructure.

If only the USA could use these wasted trillions of dollars for aid,

instead of destruction . . .

(sigh)

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