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| Obama, Afghan leader discuss US troop pullout plan |
| 2015-03-25 |
[ARABNEWS] President Barack ObamaI inhaled. That was the point... welcomed Afghanistan's new president to the White House on Tuesday. Afghanistan's Caped President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. represents Obama's last, best hope to make good on his promise to end America's longest war by the time he leaves office, keeping just a thousand or so troops at the embassy to coordinate security. Ghani predecessor Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... 's relationship with the White House was increasingly dysfunctional, and if the dealings with Ghani don't turn out better, Obama risks leaving Afghanistan still vulnerable to the kinds of violent Lion of Islam groups that operated with impunity until 14 years ago, when the US attacked after 9/11. Ghani came to the White House aiming to prove he's a reliable partner worthy of US support, despite his fractured government and a litany of problems still rampant in Afghanistan's military -- illiteracy, drug abuse and desertions, to name a few. Most critically, Ghani asked the president to keep more US troops in his country for longer, as Afghan forces brace for a tough spring fighting season and contend with Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... fighters looking to recruit on their soil. "We do not now ask what the United States can do for us," Ghani said, invoking John F. Kennedy as he opened his US visit on Monday. "We want to say what Afghanistan will do for itself and for the world." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 * See WORLD MILITARY FORUM > RUSSIAN MEDIAS: RUSSIA AND CENTRAL ASIA TO BE THREATENED IFF 5000 ISLAMIC STATE MILITANTS ALLEGEDLY CURRENTLY HIDING IN AGHANISTAN STRIKE INTO TURKMENISTAN. QATAR REPLACES SAUDIS AND SYRIA'S ASSAD AS FUNDING SOURCE FOR THE ISIS. and * TOPIX > SIGNS THAT THE TALIBAN ARE MULLING/WEIGHING SWEARING ALLEGIANCE TO THE ISLAMIC STATE [ISIS/ISIL/Daesh] - REPORT. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-03-25 22:18 |
| #2 Obozo is looking for the complete set of failed countries..........Libya, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Egypt (they're fighting his attentions off). Needs a clean sweep for his legacy. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-03-25 07:44 |
| #1 Ghani's display of leadership upstages the Champ. He [Ghani] will soon be betrayed. Champ will spoil the deck prior to leaving office. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-03-25 02:05 |