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.
Karzai's a fucking criminal, and I have no problem leaving him unprotected for the people that he has taken advantage of to do with as they see fit.
A Wikileaks release in 2010 revealed Karzai to be a weak and paranoid opportunist who was working in bad faith with the US government while making sweetheart deals with Afghan criminals.
I think getting our troops out of there should be the President's top priority, and if Karzai wants to be an asshole, he can be an asshole running for his life from his own people.
Photo caption: After five years, Pres Obama finally acknowledges Sarah. You're number one, lady.
ReplyDeleteLMFAO !!!
DeleteLOL.
DeletePerfect! Except I bet he doesn't think she's any kind of lady..that would be his lovely, gracious and intelligent wife.
DeleteMy first thought before I EVER clicked on comments. Perfection!
Deleteregarding these terms it'd be nice if we could substitute the skank fraud scarah in place of karzai , re; if Karzai wants to be an asshole, he can be an asshole running for his life from his own people.
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin, President of Afghanistan...best idea I've heard all week.
DeleteYes, troops home. Apart from all the usual reasons (HUGE reasons) to do so, it sends the message for future times that if you want help from the U.S., you better cooperate like crazy.
ReplyDeleteThe body language can't be ignored. I wonder under what circumstances and what issue was at hand when this pic was taken?
ReplyDeleteHe's giving SOMEONE the finger. I'd love to know who.
Exactly my thoughts when I saw the picture (before reading)!! I have never seen someone genuinely do that without meaning to. & I'm thinking I will save the image to post in reply to some of my neocon relatives :)
DeleteHe looks really pissed at something/ someone.
DeleteKarzai is no more of a criminal than Barry Obama
ReplyDeleteLooks like Berry's surge is a complete failure
Oh, right. And I'm sure you're spouting off the "the President must lead on immigration and the debt ceiling" crap like Boehner. Just think, had McCain and Quitter stolen the election, we'd be in a world war with Iran and Israel by now, and Afghanistan would be going full bore with American deaths. Yeah, that would help.
DeleteNormally I wouldn't go there---But, that middle finger---way up yours.
DeleteAnd you are an idiot and not paying attention. Anyone who thought that we would WIN something in that country is an moron. You must be feeling bad about no Benghazi, no IRS scandal and everyone's complete amnesia about the NSA stuff being putrid but legal.
Hey 3:14, he's lookin at YOU!
DeleteGOBAMA!
Poor widdle 3:14, you don't understand much, do you? And you forgot "Marxist Muslim."
DeleteGeez. You can't even spell "Barry" correctly. Oh, and of course your comment as usual, is stupid.
DeleteI am always so surprised that you are willing to openly demonstrate your ignorance and stupidity.
Oh, and just for you as one of the idiots out there that somehow think it makes them superior to the President to refer to him by his boyhood nickname?
DeleteBarack, Barack, Barack, Barack.
Barack Hussein Obama is President of the United States of America and his life personifies the American Dream.
Since republicans hate everything that made America great, they of course hate someone who represents everything that is wonderful about this country.
I like the idea of getting the hell out of there soon----and leaving no one behind!
ReplyDeleteMe too, Angela. It was never a nice place to visit.
DeleteJust a huge smoking hole in the ground where we could drop money into to feed the Military-Industrial Complex.
It's already been sped up. My nephew-in-law, deployed in January, was originally scheduled to be home in late December. His new in-country date is mid-September.
ReplyDeleteWe're thrilled!
Thanks, Obama!
Great news!
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ReplyDeleteFuck you Karzai !!!
And Boehner, Cantor, Grover, McTurtle, Sarah, Sean, Fox, Rush, and the entire dysfunctional GOP. Any of 'em, all of 'em.
DeleteAnd the Carlyle Group, Booz Allen Hamilton, Halliburton, United Defense, KKR, Blackstone, Bain & Co, and their investments in the Death and Human Misery industries.
DeleteNews flash:
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin, has-been, same-old Alaskan politician, on Hannity, saying she's considered running for Senator. Her reasoning:
"I'm still waiting to see, you know, what the lineup will be and hoping that, there again, there will be some new blood, new energy -- not just kind of picking from the same old politicians in the state," Palin continued.
And you just RUN for that senate seat that we ALL know you're not going to, $arah, just to line your pockets.
DeleteWhat a SCAM but, by all MEANS, keep the Christ in Christmas, right? Maybe Santa, who you've got that "in" with like Putin, can put GGs under the tree this year?
FRAUD.
Hey Quitler--- that was a nice thumb in the eye of your old buddy, Joe Miller, who's already declared he's running in 2014.
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ReplyDeleteThe news is just out, Lego head is considering 2014 Senate Run, LOL
Pl. check Huffpost etc. to read the crap.
BTW Fox News has done a major WTF cleanup:
"She hasn’t run for elected office since resigning as Alaska governor to become the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee and recently returned to Fox News as a paid commentator."
Palin did NOT resign to become the nominee. She resigned in 2009 - nearly a year after she became the nominee and about seven months after Barack Obama had been inaugurated - amid a swirl of ethics complaints.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/05/alaska-republicans-regroup-for-2014-as-tea-party-miller-returns-and-palin-still/?intcmp=HPBucket
That is WTF.
DeleteWhy would they need to re-write the resignation that is so easy to research?
Quite peculiar.
"President may speed up troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and leave NO residual forces behind . Yes please! "
ReplyDelete"President may speed up troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and leave NO residual forces behind . Yes please! "
"President may speed up troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and leave NO residual forces behind . Yes please! "
Gryphen, your headline can only be improved by abundant repetition. (but if you can figure out a way to add "fuck you Karzai" in there somewhere, that would be even better...)
Beldar, I think the photo of our President giving the finger to Karzai says it with clarity.
DeleteI surprise myself by reading a lot of books on that part of the world. They have to civilize themselves; no one can do it for them because of their extreme independence and willingness to do violence.
ReplyDeleteHowever, they crave movies, computers, cell phones, and all the technology their backward clergy doesn’t like and could never have invented. Now the people have it anyway; a bargaining chip.
Do it. F$%k them.
ReplyDeleteIf we want them to stop hating us (or at least have less reason to) we need to get out.
ReplyDeleteLove the photo!
I totally agree, and it's way past due!
ReplyDeleteAlong the same lines, John McCornteeth tries again, and fails to one up President Obama.
I thought you'd like this one!
(Haven't read the comments, so please excuse if it's a repeat)
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/07/09/mccains-attempt-undermine-afghan-pullout-strategy-blows-face-spectacularly.html
And I wonder who paid for the GOP senators to take their most recent jaunt to see their buddy Karzai. Shouldn't their own sequester have kept them home? Do you think the RNC paid for the trip? Or maybe the senators coughed up the money personally?
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