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| Obama Meets War Commanders as Afghan Plan in Limbo |
| 2014-02-06 |
[An Nahar] President Barack ObamaI inhaled. That was the point... met top Afghanistan war advisors Tuesday with U.S. plans for a post-2014 military force in limbo over President 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 refusal to sign a security agreement. Obama met Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Marine General Joseph Dunford, the commander of U.S. and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... forces in Afghanistan, as he deliberates on the pace of U.S. troop drawdowns and future strategy. Karzai has infuriated Washington by declining to sign a bilateral security agreement (BSA), which would allow some U.S. troops to remain behind on a training mission when American and allied combat missions end at the end of the year. The White House has warned that if he does not sign soon, it will have to begin preparing to leave no troops behind in the country. "As each day passes and we move further into this calendar year it becomes more imperative that the Afghan government sign the agreement that was negotiated in good faith so that NATO and the United States can make plans for a post-2014 troop presence," White House front man Jay Carney said. The White House says Obama has so far made no decisions about how many American troops would remain behind to advise the still fledgling Afghan armed forces. But it has made clear it is not prepared to wait out Karzai's last few months in office to sign the BSA after elections that will not likely identify the next Afghan president until late May. "This has to be a matter of weeks," Carney said. The State Department meanwhile said that Dunford and James Dobbins, the US special representative for Pakistain and Afghanistan, would travel to Brussels and Berlin in the next few days to consult NATO allies. The United States had earlier pushed for the BSA to be signed by the end of October so that the NATO military coalition could schedule the withdrawal of its troops. Karzai has said that before he signs the BSA, the United States must foster a genuine grinding of the peace processor with Talibs. |
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| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-02-06 00:03 |