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U.S. Considers Faster Pullout in Afghanistan
New York Times ^ | July 8, 2013 | MARK MAZZETTI and MATTHEW ROSENBERG

Posted on 07/09/2013 4:20:45 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

Increasingly frustrated by his dealings with President Hamid Karzai, President Obama is giving serious consideration to speeding up the withdrawal of United States forces from Afghanistan and to a “zero option” that would leave no American troops there after next year, according to American and European officials.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; karzai; taliban
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To: cripplecreek; Jack Hammer

Exactly. I nominate Jack Hammer to spend the rest of his life in that third world dump.


21 posted on 07/09/2013 5:08:31 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Jack Hammer

Please define victory in Afghanistan, and how we achieve it.


22 posted on 07/09/2013 5:08:31 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: Timber Rattler

Karzai has really screwed himself. His temper tantrums about American ROE’s and his comments about how the US is in cahoots with the Taliban have made him extremely unpopular stateside. This guy probably subscribes to a zillion conspiracy theories about how America presidents are dictators who can do whatever they want, but the reality is that the only way he could have kept GI’s in-country was by keeping the American public on his side. By making Americans hate him, he has made certain that he will face the Taliban without American troops and perhaps without American financial aid. Karzai is yet another example of Dubya’s lamentable personnel choices. Iraq’s Maliki is another one.


23 posted on 07/09/2013 5:14:26 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: EEGator

Its become a war on we the people who are losing our freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism as we get a steady drip of bodies back from that 3rd world hellhole.

Sad that some think both should continue in perpetuity.


24 posted on 07/09/2013 5:15:43 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Timber Rattler

If this is true then why is my daughters friend being deployed in Sept?


25 posted on 07/09/2013 5:16:44 AM PDT by angcat
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To: cripplecreek

I don’t understand how they can think that way.

Our ROE are crap, Afghan people aren’t worth crap, and you’ll never make Afghanistan some type of Westernized country.


26 posted on 07/09/2013 5:29:12 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: cripplecreek

Yeah, let’s fight them overseas and leave our borders unprotected. I always though that was sound reasoning.


27 posted on 07/09/2013 5:35:50 AM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: miliantnutcase
Yeah, let’s fight them overseas and leave our borders unprotected. I always though that was sound reasoning.

LOL yup. The NSA needs to spy on us to keep us secure despite our open borders, muslim preferential immigration policies, and their own utter failure to stop terrorism.
28 posted on 07/09/2013 5:38:41 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Truth29
Obama strategy: Run, and spread chaos as you go. American soldiers should not risk a hangnail for Emperor Zero.

As opposed to stay and do what? Fight and die for a people who don't want us there? Prop up a corrupt government that doesn't have the support of the populace? We failed to learn from history. Countries have gone into Afghanistan for hundreds of years figuring that they could change it and remake everything for the better, or at least pacify the damned place. And every attempt has been a miserable failure. Ours is just the latest. Time to cut our loses and get out. Sooner rather than later.

29 posted on 07/09/2013 5:47:37 AM PDT by 0.E.O
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To: Timber Rattler

That Gay Pride celebration probably didn’t help much— But I can agree with Hagel in his comment it “makes us stronger” especially when we flaunt such crap as a guest in a Muslim
Country -but can’t claim we doin’ it in the name of allah.


30 posted on 07/09/2013 5:59:30 AM PDT by StonyBurk (ring)
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To: Zhang Fei
Well, I'm no Karzai fan, but he seems to have figured out that he's a modern-day Thieu and is going to meet the same fate, out of power and exiled in disgrace.

Like him or not, Karzai is/was "our" guy, and you have to go deep down into the 2001-2002 memory hole to remember how we ended up with him----Abdul Haq our first choice for Afghan president got himself caught, castrated, and strung up in October 2001.

Desperate call from the valley of death: 'Help us...' Jason Burke in Peshawar on the capture and execution of anti-Taliban warrior Abdul Haq

Karzai Bets on Vilifying U.S. to Shed His Image as a Lackey

31 posted on 07/09/2013 6:14:50 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: cripplecreek

amen


32 posted on 07/09/2013 6:15:44 AM PDT by SouthWall (If we are having diversity classes, shouldn't we be having unity classes?)
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To: angcat

A lot of those deployments are now being cancelled. A buddy of mine is an officer in a brigade that was slated to go at the same time, and they just got their cancellation orders last week.


33 posted on 07/09/2013 6:16:13 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: EEGator
...and you’ll never make Afghanistan some type of Westernized country.

Not as long as they subscribe to a 11th century religion and way of life.

34 posted on 07/09/2013 6:19:48 AM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: 0.E.O
"As opposed to stay and do what? Fight and die for a people who don't want us there? Prop up a corrupt government that doesn't have the support of the populace? We failed to learn from history. Countries have gone into Afghanistan for hundreds of years figuring that they could change it and remake everything for the better, or at least pacify the damned place. And every attempt has been a miserable failure. Ours is just the latest. Time to cut our loses and get out. Sooner rather than later."

Oh I don't disagree with you. We should get out now. Our ROEs guarantee more American deaths. What we should do is leave and kill mass quantities of the Taliban as we go and leave the message that any further problems they cause outside of their own borders, and we will come back and neutron bomb the place - but we won't.

35 posted on 07/09/2013 6:22:06 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: FreedomPoster
Loosen the ROEs so our guys can protect themselves and get the h*** out.

+1. That's why we should stay the hell out of Syria, Egypt, the Middle East. Our leaders have proven themselves incapable of setting ROEs that minimize the danger to our servicemembers.

Let's turn our focus to producing more energy in the US, and let the EU figure out how to secure their oil supply.

36 posted on 07/09/2013 6:29:15 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (The Tea Party was the earthquake, and Chick Fil A the tsunami...100's of aftershocks to come.)
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To: Timber Rattler

A local girl deployed to Afghanistan a couple of years ago. She went as some sort of women’s liaison to remote villages. She had grand visions of the great good she was going to do.

Now that she’s back she says the only way to save Afghanistan is to round up every child under the age of 12 to bring back here and kill everything left. She says we are building some beautiful highways though.


37 posted on 07/09/2013 6:31:00 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Timber Rattler

Oh God I pray this happens I pray every night!


38 posted on 07/09/2013 6:35:46 AM PDT by angcat
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To: Jack Hammer
There’s no ‘pulling out’ of the War on Terror. There’s only a collapse of the front lines closer to home - the mainland US. Pull US troops out of foreign engagement, and the battles will be in America’s streets

Good argument in 2002. Bad argument in 2013.

What's the plan for victory?

39 posted on 07/09/2013 6:37:00 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: FreedomPoster
You can’t civilize a nation of savages, at least not with the constraints of modern political correctness

PC has nothing to do with it - savages can't become civilized beings in an appropriate time frame at all, PC or no PC.

In an engagement with savages, the choices are victory or surrender. Since our minds seem made up against victory, I suspect we will surrender sooner or later.

40 posted on 07/09/2013 6:41:16 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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