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Afghanistan

Afghan Minister of Defense Could Sign BSA: Kerry

2013-12-05

[Tolo News] U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
suggested on Tuesday that the Afghan Defense Minister Bismillah Khan Mohammadi could, instead of a reluctant President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
... 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 Pashtun face 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...
, sign the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) that would enable some U.S. troops to stay in the country post-2014.

Posted by:Fred

#3 Like him or hate him, Karzai is the Afghan Prez - this effort to ignore or bypass Karzai is derogatory + offensive.

Iff anything, this brouhaha shows or infers that AFGHANISTAN/AFPAK = IRAQ = THE BAMMER SEEMINGLY DESIRES OR PRIORITIZES THE PULLOUT US TROOPS WHILE LEAVING A WEAK OR UNSTABLE DOMESTIC GOVT. [Army?] IN PLACE.

A recipe for post-2014 Militant domination of the Kabul = AFPAK Govt(s)???

The Bammer may had killed Osama + other, but he is still far far away from defeating the premises + causes of Jihad, or in the alternat imposing an effective substitute which the Hard Boyz can accept.

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-12-05 23:51

#2 Kerry said. It doesn't have to be the "president," he said, not finishing the word. "You know, his minister of defense can sign it, the government can sign it, somebody can accept responsibility for this," Kerry added.

A sort of "stand-down" order.... in reverse ?

Posted by: Besoeker 2013-12-05 10:00

#1 Good grief, they are indeed getting desperate.

Posted by: Pappy 2013-12-05 09:57

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