Posted on 11/25/2013 9:37:29 PM PST by chessplayer
The Obama administration has more trouble with its diplomacy than just regarding Iran. Last week, the White House let it be known that they had all but concluded a pact with Afghanistan to keep as many as 15,000 troops, mostly American, in place until 2024, a decade longer than Barack Obama promised when he launched his own surge strategy in late 2009. Almost immediately after going out on that political limb, Hamid Karzai began to saw it off, insisting that the issue had to be brought before tribal elders and that Karzai himself wouldn’t sign it either way, a direct rebuke to the Obama administration. Karzai insists that the next elected president of Afghanistan should make that decision himself, throwing a wrench into the gears of Pentagon planning and putting the entire agreement at risk. NBC now reports that even with the Loya Jirga endorsing the pact, Karzai is still refusing to cooperate, demanding more concessions from the White House:
The obamites are everybody’s favorite party bitch.
He’s just trying to beat Obama to the punch.
Obama would have done it for him if he’d just waited.
Karzai to Obama “if u want our treaty, you can keep it —period”.
WELL PLAYED...!
Obama has succeeded in acting as Treachery Tutor to the whole world.
Nice move, Karzai.
Karzai isn't highly thought of, in fact, he is regarded as nothing more than mafioso. The tribal elders want this agreement to be signed. In fact, the elders are ready stage mass demonstrations against Karzai. He may end up leaving before April.
Did you mean to say Karzai, or Obama?
Huge heaps of natural resources including poppies is what he’s getting.
And kickbacks flowing to a mansion in Hawaii.
As soon as Karzai is out of office (Elections April 2014)he will be on a plane for Dubai where he will live off the cash he stole from us.
The same can be said of either except we normally don't refer to our politicals as "tribal elders". Who knows, that could change too.
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