http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/09/world/asia/frustrated-obama-considers-full-troop-withdrawal-from-afghanistan.html?hp&_r=2&pagewanted=all&
WASHINGTON — 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.Mr. Obama is committed to ending America’s military involvement in Afghanistan by the end of 2014, and Obama administration officials have been negotiating with Afghan officials about leaving a small “residual force” behind.But his relationship with Mr. Karzai has been slowly unraveling, and reached a new low after an effort last month by the United States to begin peace talks with the Taliban in Qatar.
Mr. Karzai promptly repudiated the talks and ended negotiations with the United States over the long-term security deal that is needed to keep American forces in Afghanistan after 2014.
i agree, i've written before about our leaving and they can excuse our dust. if we are as powerful as they tell us we are we can take the billions going to them sure up the entry points and the technologies needed and the most powerful nation in the world should be able to protect the country from foreign invasion.
those who have been selling off America piece by piece, and get richer doing business with them does not help America no taxes no revenue to factories. it's time to bend over and watch our own behind for a change. the idea of world police and saviour is a rich mans dream to rule the world.
A videoconference between Mr. Obama and Mr. Karzai designed to defuse the tensions ended badly, according to both American and Afghan officials with knowledge of it. Mr. Karzai, according to those sources, accused the United States of trying to negotiate a separate peace with both the Taliban and their backers in Pakistan, leaving Afghanistan’s fragile government exposed to its enemies.Mr. Karzai had made similar accusations in the past. But those comments were delivered to Afghans — not to Mr. Obama, who responded by pointing out the American lives that have been lost propping up Mr. Karzai’s government, the officials said.
political posturing by Karzai, is costing him his free ride and it's about time, it's unconscionable to speak of Americans not having food, or health care and housing when more then enough of the money needed is going to backstabbers that ar laughing all the way to the bank, we don't see the people doing good as we don't see that here those who control the money flourish those who don't get hosed.
