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Getbig Main Boards => Politics and Political Issues Board => Topic started by: 240 is Back on July 08, 2013, 09:22:25 PM
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Good or bad thing?
from the NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/09/world/asia/frustrated-obama-considers-full-troop-withdrawal-from-afghanistan.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
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.
The option of leaving no troops in Afghanistan after 2014 was gaining momentum before the June 27 video conference, according to the officials. But since then, the idea of a complete military exit similar to the American military pullout from Iraq has gone from being considered the worst-case scenario — and a useful negotiating tool with Mr. Karzai — to an alternative under serious consideration in Washington and Kabul.
The officials cautioned that no decisions had been made on the pace of the pullout and exactly how many American troops to leave behind in Afghanistan. The goal remains negotiating a long-term security deal, they said, but the hardening of negotiating stances on both sides could result in a repeat of what happened in Iraq, where a deal failed to materialize despite widespread expectations that a compromise would be reached and American forces would remain.
“There’s always been a zero option, but it was not seen as the main option,” said a senior Western official in Kabul. “It is now becoming one of them, and if you listen to some people in Washington, it is maybe now being seen as a realistic path.”
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Good. Fuck it.
Who needs that shit anyway.
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Good. Fuck it.
Who needs that shit anyway.
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Good. Fuck it.
Who needs that shit anyway.
There will be 10's of thousands jobs for western security contractors there ;D
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Fuck those opium growing shit heads!
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Pulling our kids out of countries who think of us as the Great Satan? Count me in.
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I'd rather pull out a bit early just to be safe.
my sofa pulls out, but i dont
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More bs from Obama. Watch what he does not what he says.
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"pulling out" - a hard one for Obama :D
Will be a great day for the Taliban.
India will be sweating a little more.
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Time to get the hell out was long ago.
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http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/article/20130709/NEWS05/307090027/DoD-No-decision-U-S-troops-Afghanistan-after-2014
Like I said - Obama is full of SHIITE