[livius]

Obama is surrendering to the terrorists, you mean. That has been his objective all along.

Karzai certainly wasn’t great, but that’s because even before Obama, we allowed the Afghan government to be set up adhering to a sharia-based constitution. However, even this wasn’t radical enough for Obama, and he wants to go whole hog and show the jihadis how much he loves them - in Afghanistan and everywhere.

He regards them as the ultimate anti-Western and anti-American force, and this is the only principle that truly motivates him.

[cloudmountain]

You know, I lived and traveled in the middle east some years back. We Aramcons all loved to travel and did so.

Afghanistan (Land of the Afghanis) was one place NONE of us would go to. It was just not open for tourists in any way, shape or form. It was totally inhospitable to all (ALL) things not archaic, medieval, useless and screwed up (technical term).

From what I read and saw it the middle east, Afghanistan made India and China look like Switzerland.

[kabar]

I don't blame Karzai for being upset. It sounds like he was left out of the loop and the announcement took him by surprise.

Obama did this on purpose. Just like he failed to get a SOFA with Iraq to have a residual force there, Obama is pissing off Karzai so he can use it as a pretext to pull out all US forces. Walking away will seal the fate of many of the Afgans who helped us.

[Sacajaweau]

Of course everyone knows that Karzai worked for the CIA, right?

[PghBaldy]

Iraq has a Shari-Constitution too. Both written or approved by the Bush Administration.