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Getbig Main Boards => Politics and Political Issues Board => Topic started by: 240 is Back on March 10, 2013, 05:11:08 PM
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Is he right?
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday accused the Taliban and the U.S. of working in concert to convince Afghans that violence will worsen if most foreign troops leave – an allegation the top American commander in Afghanistan rejected as "categorically false."
Karzai said two suicide bombings that killed 19 people on Saturday – one outside the Afghan Defense Ministry and the other near a police checkpoint in eastern Khost province – show the insurgent group is conducting attacks to demonstrate that international forces will still be needed to keep the peace after their current combat mission ends in 2014.
"The explosions in Kabul and Khost yesterday showed that they are at the service of America and at the service of this phrase: 2014. They are trying to frighten us into thinking that if the foreigners are not in Afghanistan, we would be facing these sorts of incidents," he said during a nationally televised speech about the
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Do we have another double-cross taking place? One day he's your friend, ...the next he is being conspired again, ...with the supposed enemy? Wouldn't be the first time we've seen someone installed and risen to power, ...only to be backhanded. There are lots of groups that work like that, ...owning both sides (both incumbent & opposition) keeps both inclined to do your will, 'lest you withdraw support, and back their opponents. Just look at Syria. There's one anti-Assad rebel faction that has kidnapped 23 UN workers. Uh... who are the good guys again?
Looks like Hillary was pretty savvy to resign when she did. How do you explain something like this to the bereaved family of a fallen soldier? "Ya we sent your son/daughter/wife/husband/brother/sister/mother/father etc to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan, and he died there, ...and now we've changed our minds... and decided the Taliban are now our friends, ...sorry your relative is dead? :-\