I’m kind of tired of listening to Hamid Karzai complain about U.S. troops in his country. Any other Afghan I would understand, but Karzai is the main beneficiary of our presence there and he’d be the first person to die without our cloak of protection. I hope we take his advice though.
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You’re tired of it, but the powers that be are not. Just as they endlessly pander to Israel. Now we have to kiss Netenyahu’s (sp., I’m not going to waste my time) tushes because he has agreed to consider a colonies freeze after Ms. Clinton has given him hundreds and thousands of goodies. Why doesn’t she complain that since Israel has socialist universal health care it has to stop taking US indirect subsidies of that system for granted because the AMERICAN PEOPLE—that is, the people who live in the US in case she doesn’t know who they are—are hurting. I suppose Mr. O. is also in on the bargain. The U.S. lets itself be taken for an ass—starting with the powerbrokers like Obama, Clinton, Palin and all the rest, Cantor, on and on.
We’re broke at home, but in Afghanistan, we have money enough to try to stabilize the country with a family that steals elections and deals drugs, but bitches about us being there. But we can’t leave because … well, I’m not able to identify why we can’t, but obviously, we can’t, or rational people would get us out. We live in a post-rational age. None of this is going to end well.
India’s not interested in us leaving, and they were also one of the main targets in Obama’s trip overseas.
Right, so the US people have to drag themselves through hell for—-India? Right again. And maybe for Obama too. Of all places on earth. I’ll place a call to a call center in Bangalore and complain.
Karzai is positioning himself for negotiations is my guess. Don’t take international positions so personal. They rarely state things directly.
If he doesn’t ask the US to reduce the intensity of the war, he want be taken as seriously negotiating. If the US doesn’t temporarily reduce the intensity of the war, it will look like Karzai’s the puppet he is.
I wouldn’t put money on this or anything, but is it possible that Karzai is backing Obama’s stated desire to start pulling out US troops next summer?