Throwing further doubt into President Obama’s claims that he intends to begin transferring control over Afghan security to the Afghan military in July 2011, Afghan President Hamid Karzai says that the force will not be self-sufficient until at least 2024.
The nation has struggled to muster any sort of competent security forces of its own since the 2001 US invasion, despite billions of dollars in aid from NATO and massive training missions from the international forces.
Karzai suggested that new timetable at a press conference given with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who said he hoped that “we will be able to beat those timelines.”
In addition to President Obama’s largely illusory July 2011 claim, the White House has also said it intends to be out of Afghanistan by 2017. Karzai’s comments suggest even that is a relatively ambitious timetable, and that decades of war remain a very real possibility, assuming the conflict doesn’t continue to deteriorate to the point that it forces NATO to withdraw.
Bring Karzai back, bring our troops back. If Karzai and his comrades had any support they would be able to build an army in 6 months why do they need 15 years?
"The Americans have watches, the Taliban have time"…………………………………… OOOOOOOOO, jus fifteen years..?? If yer goin for a long tern aid an support situation, why not really go fer it……say fifty
years support………….. Hey, Israel did it……. hit the 50 mark………….America's No.1 Welfare Queen..
She has gotten more welfare that ANY OTHER welfare case…MayBe a hundred Billion– and to show her gratitude, she SPYS on America' [listen to Jane Harman "volunteer to fix Rosen spy case] see http://www.alternet.org/blogs/righ/1374/bombshell… _caught_on_tape_agreeing_to_lobby_ for_alleged_aipac_israel_spies/and steals her secrets, but…no problim….. America's No. 1 Welfare Queen & stalwart ally……. I is for I as in me. S is for shut-up an PAY R is for robbery A is for always on D'dole E is for Eat it…….. Jus ask Obama about those illegal settlements… And L is for Love, why else would the U.S. take all the abuse and make her Queen of American welfare…???
Headline news in the "Solar Beijing Review" (read mainly by Asteroid Belt workers), 1st January 2062:
US unsure whether able to leave Afghanistan by 2080!
"We are looking at some progress", President-General Bonkers affirms.
Nuclear suicide bombings put advances of last decades in doubt.
Headline news in the "Solar Beijing Review" (read mainly by Asteroid Belt workers), 1st January 2062:
>> US unsure whether able to leave Afghanistan by 2080! <<
"We are looking at some progress", President-General Bonkers says.
Nuclear suicide bombings put advances of last decades in doubt.
Hillary Clinton III (cloned) confirms: "When we are talking about the 'Afghan region', we _do_ include Vienna"