US officials continue to make regular warnings of a full scale withdrawal from Afghanistan if President Karzai doesn’t sign the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) by the end of the month. It’s not getting anywhere.
That’s the message from key Karzai aide Aimal Fox, who in a statement today insisted that the US “will not achieve anything” by pressure and ultimatum, and that Karzai will not buckle to demands to sign the pact.
US and NATO officials have repeatedly pressed Karzai on the matter, but the Afghan President says he won’t sign until the April election, which ends his term in office.
Earlier this week, Secretary of State John Kerry even suggested that Karzai might be cut out of the deal entirely, and some other official might sign the BSA instead. The legality of that is extremely dubious, to say the least.
Yes. Stand your ground, and score another gold star for the Graveyard of nasty empires who like killing your people. Send them scurrying out the way they came in.
O God , Make Karzai stand firm on this and lets see America leave Afghanistan with their tails between their legs _ Just like in Vietnam.
God Save Afghanistan – God Save the American People
Bury The Warmongers in their own filth.
Kerry might have a point. Karzai was placed in that position by the US, and at some point I think he will sign…..After all, he wouldn't want to end up on the "No-fly List."
First, Obama has given no indication that he is actually going to do what he says. He's proven that several times. There is no way the US/NATO is going to just leave Afghanistan…the warmongers in Congress are already starting to bray that leaving would be just throwing away all the "gains" accomplished in 12 years of occupation – wasting all those precious lives for political face. Obama has no balls and doesn't like having his image tarnished by his detractors so he'll talk and threaten but won't do anything to change the game. Hell, according to reports the Pentagon has not even considered leaving in their planning and that kind of logistics does not happen overnight.
If this was his first term coming up on an election I'd say this was to placate those who want to end the war but he's not running again…so he's just a coward.
Karzai is most likely not going to sign and Obama will find another "line in the sand" to draw.
I'd like nothing more than to be proven wrong.
The US demands in dispute are: 1) complete freedom to kill anyone by drone strikes, and to have them hover as a threat over everyone for years; and 2) complete freedom to do night raids on homes, and to kill everyone in the home including women and children, without question or review.
Well yeah, he won't sign. He might, which is shocking.
Could it be that the caravan has moved on? That the 'planners' (Pentagon, State) have seen that they simply cannot win with war? Look at the examples; Afghanistan a bleeding sore; nothing (much if anything) so far won; fuel costs in the region of $100 per gallon, and guaranteed return to the 'status quo ante' WHEN (not IF; they just won't/can't last forever) – the US + its NATO etc. quislings finally pull out? Basically ditto Iraq, Libya a useless, smoking ruin and Syria headed that way – and Palestine the utter worst, un-remedied, continuous supreme international crime-scene, where the entire world is waking up to what the MSM + PFBCs (the latter = publicly-financed broadcasters, both = corrupt&venal) – have been 'cleverly' (= criminally) hiding from us, the vicious rapine + plunder of Mandate Palestine and its hapless ELO/Os (= erstwhile legal owner/occupiers), those natives brutally oppressed by the aggressively-invading Z-cancer? That as well as to pointless wars, the tyrants posing as 'democratic leaders' are leading the world nowhere else but up the garden path – and possibly, at the moment most probably, over the excess-CO² climate-change cliff? That the overwhelming majority of decent people are on the cusp of totally rejecting the <1%, and all their sycophantic running-dog hangers-on? Has the so-called élite (nothing élite about criminals) called a consolidated heads-*down*? Hope being a hopeless strategy, we, the truth and justice = peace seekers must press our case, keep 'catapulting' – the truth of the matter.
Good. Now kick out the Americans and help them save them from themselves.
"The legality of that is extremely dubious, to say the least."
The USA cares about the appearance of legality, and if it can't achieve that, then not even the appearance.
A powerful criminal state will act legally when it can, and illegally in all other cases.
And notice how getting this treaty approved by the semi-elected representatives of the American people is completely off the table and not even discussed anymore. That's modern American democracy. Rule by fiat at home, and get others to agree by blackmail, threats and ultimatums.
Good for them–AMERIKA GET OUT ..Get out of every 'illegally' occupied SOVERIGN NATION ON PLANET EARTH–NOW
we made him an offer he can't refuse? Just like another mob threat i remember…
Don't forget Imran has their exit/escape cut off at the (Khiber) pass…………. OOOOOO Wait… the exit is locked…. OOOPPPSSS…. 2bad 4blakstooge…………. How much of their stuff will be lost, stolen, diverted or just vanish… when they make their getaway…….??? Wasn't Daniel Pearl that said future generations will sing songs about the neocon exploits…. I've got a funny feeling, those songs won't be the 1s he imagined…!!!
I believe you're confusng Richard Perle (neo-con) with Daniel Pearl (RIP).