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| Afghanistan |
| Afghan Lower House Approves Foreign Troops Staying on |
| 2014-11-24 |
| [AnNahar] Afghanistan's lower house of parliament on Sunday approved agreements that will allow about 12,500 NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... -led troops to stay on next year as the national army and police struggle to hold back the Taliban. U.S.-led NATO combat operations will finish at the end of this year, but the Taliban have launched a series of recent offensives that have severely tested Afghan soldiers and police. The new NATO mission -- named Resolute Support -- will focus on supporting the Afghan forces, in parallel with U.S. counter-terrorism operations. The Bilateral Security Agreement with the United States, and a similar pact with NATO, were the source of huge friction between the Afghan government and its allies under previous 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... But 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. .. , who became president in September, reset ties by signing the long-awaited deals on his first day in power. Ghani welcomed politicians' overwhelming vote in favor of the two agreements on Sunday and said he awaited the prompt approval of the upper house. "It is a good step in strengthening Afghanistan's national illusory sovereignty," Ghani said in a statement. "The Afghan cops will be in charge of full security of their country, and will be further equipped and strengthened." Karzai's refusal to sign the security accord came to symbolize the breakdown of Afghan-U.S. relations after the optimism of 2001, when the Taliban regime was ousted from power with U.S. assistance. On Friday the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported that President Barack Obama I am the change that you seek... had extended the remit of those U.S. troops set to remain in Afghanistan next year. They will be able to carry out missions against the Taliban and other groups that threaten them, the paper said. The new order also allows air support -- from U.S. jets, bombers and drones -- for Afghan combat missions. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Something akin to kidney dialysis I'd say. Once you quit the four hour sessions, game pretty much over. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-11-24 08:03 |