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Karzai wants US troops to pull back to military bases
Fox News ^ | March 15, 2012

Posted on 03/15/2012 8:22:08 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

The United States encountered mounting challenges to its presence in Afghanistan Thursday, as Afghan President Hamid Karzai urged the U.S. to pull back to military bases and the Taliban announced they were suspending tentative peace talks.

The developments come after two incidents strained relations between the two countries -- the inadvertent burning of Korans on a U.S. base, and most recently a shooting spree that left 16 Afghan civilians dead. Afghan lawmakers expressed outrage after the U.S. soldier suspected in that massacre was flown out of the country to Kuwait.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; karzai
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To: SMARTY

At least the Vietnamese are industrious and gregarious (in the south), totally unlike the barbarians in Afghanistan.

‘Been there twice. Beautiful country.


41 posted on 03/15/2012 10:10:26 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Sequoyah101

I don’t think it was an accident.

I believe Bush went in with honest intentions, and until Obama usurped the presidency we were doing decent things in Afghanistan - mostly because we were drawing the terrorists into Iraq where we could better deal with them.

But I think Obama decided on the Afghanistan surge in order to specifically accomplish the three major objectives I listed at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2859424/posts?page=25#25 . In follow-up comments I showed a few of my reasons for believing as I do.


42 posted on 03/15/2012 10:20:35 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: rightwingintelligentsia; xzins

Hamid Karzai is currently number 46 on the top 100 famous people most likely to die in 2012.

I’d say that after this announcement he will probably be moving up to the top 10.


43 posted on 03/15/2012 10:53:21 AM PDT by P-Marlowe
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Amen, pull them back to bases in the US. Let Karzai negotiate with the Taliban.


44 posted on 03/15/2012 11:13:10 AM PDT by pallis
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Way past time to bring the U.S. military home from Afghanistan and stop pretending that Islamic countries can be civilized if only the U.S. military props up a government for long enough.

NEVER WORKS.


45 posted on 03/15/2012 3:12:50 PM PDT by DNA.2012
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To: butterdezillion

Indeed, there is a lot more going on here than we know. I fully believe there are are strategies being formulated in the White House that may even be making some of his cabinet members uneasy. But, being liberals they would never go public with any objections.


46 posted on 03/16/2012 10:02:54 AM PDT by Baynative (Please check this out - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFIcZkEzc8I)
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To: Baynative

The question is whether he’s making his chain of command uneasy enough that they will realize there is a foreign enemy combatant in the White House and they have a duty to protect the country and the troops below them FROM HIM.


47 posted on 03/16/2012 10:33:52 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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