The newly elected French President is still very clear about following through on his campaign promise to get all French troops out of occupied Afghanistan by the end of the year. Officials are downplaying the significance of the pullout, however, and are pressing for the rest of NATO to reiterate their commitment to the war.
NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen expressed “optimism” in this regard, saying he believes that the member nations will come through with major funding for the Afghan military and insisting that the alliance is united on seeing the conflict through despite its enormous unpopularity.
President Obama, meanwhile, struggled to stay on message, insisting in comments meant for the public that the war “as we understood it is over” but centering on the long, difficult road ahead in comments to other officials, while pressing NATO for unity on the conflict going forward.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai also used the summit to reiterate how important it is for his government to receive massive financial and military support for the foreseeable future, while insisting that at some point Afghanistan would become self-reliant. Naturally, Karzai gave no indication how this would ever happen.
WAR PIGS by Black Sabbath:
Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor.
If these guys who now debate Afghanistan and the future of NATO put their own blood (either themselves or their own kids in a harm way) one would certainly could more easily believe their proclaimed love of their country and care they offer to their fellow citizens. However, the dying is always done by others not by "DESIDERS" or they kin. How can anybody believe them?
Capitalism has reached its last point in creating and startin wars, they need each other more then any time in capitalism history, especially Europe neo fascism regimes including this man Fogh Rasmussen whom governing NATO. These regimes having all kind of social economic and politic problem up to their neck and drowning in their own created Sh….iiiii.tttt, their last chance is to do what they can in providing more of their stupidity by militrazing more of this world.
Watch out for some serious false flag Terrorists attacks in France soon.
That shouldn't be a problem. Just today, the Republicans gave another $642 billion for the Pentagon, exceeding congressionally mandated spending limits by $8 billion. That tidy sum ought to get them going for at least another 3 to 6 months.