For context, please refer to my previous diaries.
Well, what a shock. The corrupt regime keeps on chugging
Karzai is unlikely to meet deadline on signing long-term security deal, U.S. envoy says
The lead American negotiator in talks over a long-term security agreement with Afghanistan has privately warned the Obama administration that its efforts to persuade President Hamid Karzai to sign the document on the U.S. timetable are likely to fail, according to officials.
The assessment, if borne out, could raise the chances of a hasty and messy troop withdrawal by the end of the year and would leave the administration with little time to assemble a military coalition to remain in Afghanistan after the pullout.
The ambassador’s conclusion is a stark indication of how acrimonious discussions between the two countries have become. On Thursday, in a separate blow to relations, Karzai’s government said it will release 72 high-profile Afghan detainees, turned over by the U.S. military for trial, despite American insistence that they pose a threat to Afghan and U.S. security forces.
In an assessment circulated last month, the U.S. intelligence community judged that a total American military withdrawal from Afghanistan would lead to a rapid collapse of central government control to the Taliban and other power brokers in wide swaths of the country.
In other words, we have wasted blood and treasure for what?
I have no expectation that a SOFA in Afghanistan will ever happen. Do You?
The absolute incompetence of this Admin is astounding. You do realize that approx 75% of the US casualties and deaths have occurred since 2009? Yet, it's all on the back page. Nothing to see here, just move on.
Leave these people to themselves. Just leave. Don't continue the farce.
C'mon Obama, just admit you can't do squat in Afghanistan. Just like all the others going back hundreds of years with their "Grand Game" BS. Your only hope is to gain support from the US population that we know when to get the F out.
Stop the War.
Now.