Afghan President Hamid Karzai has finalized negotiations with Secretary of State John Kerry on a Bilateral Security Agreement which will govern US occupation forces in the nation “through 2024 and beyond.”
The exact text of the final terms hasn’t been released, but the deal is said to allow US night raids against Afghan homes unspecified “exceptional circumstances, and won’t include any US apology for civilian deaths.
According to Kerry, the question of a US apology, a rumor that swirled yesterday, wasn’t even broached by Karzai. The Karzai office had suggested some statement of wrongdoing might be expected, however, that wouldn’t technically be an apology.
The pact will be voted on Thursday by the Afghan Loya Jirga, which might well kill the deal over the matter of night raids, which have been hugely unpopular within Afghanistan. The US Congress will not get any such opportunity to debate the pact nor to vote on it.
Only homes of the impoverished lower half of society ever get raided, upper half of society hoards all the wealth and as always — Empire USA kills for the rich.
One can always get a deal in the ME if the bribe is large enough.
"US and Afghanistan Reach Deal …"
Wrong.
Karzai and Kerry do not constitute US and Afghanistan.
Besides, Karzai changed his mind.
This cannot be good for the US. We need to get out, completely. Now. How much longer will the American people stand quietly and accept that their sons and daughters, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers will be offered up for political agendas not in the interest of the American nation?
SOMEONE has to protect the "popular" gov't of Hamid Karzai…and such a move no doubt will make it even more popular. Nothing quite like agreeing to night raids of people's homes by foreign soldiers to ignite a love affair between the ruler and the ruled.
A perpetual slow bleed of $1million per year per soldier is a cost someone somewhere has been determined to be in the US best interest. Money into a black hole, but jobs at home? Nah.