With Afghan President Hamid Karzai calling for the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) to wait until after the April elections, the Obama Administration is said to be considering “bypassing” him outright.
But is that even possible? Officials say it’s not clear. Theoretically the deal could be completed without the signatures of the heads of state, but that would mean delegating that authority to the legislature.
Which would mean actually letting the US Senate debate the BSA, which would extend the US occupation through 2024 and beyond. President Obama has tried to avoid bringing it before Congress by arguing this is an Executive Agreement, not a treaty. Failing to get the signature of the Afghan executive would ruin that argument.
The US has threatened to withdraw from Afghanistan in 2014 in the pact isn’t signed by Karzai before the end of December. Afghan officials have said they don’t take that threat seriously and Karzai wants more concessions before signing the deal.
Just change the name to unilateral security arrangement. Why worry about what Karzai has to say?
Just change the name to unilateral security arrangement. Why worry about what Karzai has to say?
Just change the name to unilateral security arrangement. Why worry about what Karzai has to say?
The Banksters/WarPigs/CIA Drug cartal are NEVER EVER leaving. EVER!!! Its 60+ years in Germany/Japan
Difference between Germany/Japan and Afghanistan is the enemy capitulated in Germany and Japan. In Afghanistan, the insurgency is stronger than ever. Continued long term US presence risks continued attacks against its bases and troops for a very long time to come as well. Does the US really want to stay long term in a country where half or less than half of its population is ready and willing to fight foreign presence? If the US had wisely engineered its long term presence, it would've already backed peace negotiations with the Taliban a long time ago, and Afghanistan would very likely be on the road to peace. Unfortunately, US lacks smart policymakers with clear vision of the challenges ahead. I'd say the US is extremely confused as to what it even accomplishing. The US war path leads to nowhere, and Afghans know this well, especially Karzai, so far at least.
What´s the big deal? Isn´t that what Israel does to our president when he wants a policy change in America?
Why go through this asinine dance? just tell Karzai that the war on terror will continue, because Afghanistan is still a threat to the US and it's allies……can they legally do that?
Dudes and Dudettes…the US is an Occupying Force. The only reason there is a Karzai at all is because the US needed someone they could install (elect) who would be in the pocket of the US imperialists/warmongers. It surely wasn't because the us Archons actually believe in democracy and sovereign sanctity of other nations – they've proven over the years that that is not the case.
If the US really wants to stay, they will create a situation where that will happen.
Anything to keep the gravy train rolling for the mobsters.
I'm surprised they haven't eliminated Karzai yet.
As fickle as he is The US has nobody to replace him with. Especially not another Pashtun because they all hate our guts. I'm sure they could appoint one of the Northern Alliance goons head os state but that would just make things uglier.
Please, please, please America, get the h— out of the rest of the world and allow them to establish their own peace. It probably won't look like yours.
Yeah,the Wapo says that pressure from Afghanis are trying to make him accept deal.What,the traitors sucking on our teat?I bet the Taliban love that we are leaving,and so do I.This just in;NYTs says Egypt is a dictatorship.Sheesh,how long does it take to reveal reality for the Ziomonsters?These people?are an international embarrassment.
A new kind of barnacle. The US doesn't want to extricate itself from the " $and Teat "
Its getting harder and harder to run the empire with all that pesky democracy and laws and stuff bollixing things up.
Lets find out whose pushing this "rule of law", "democracy" and "nation building" crap and bomb them back to the stone age.
Way to go!
Waaaa, we want to stay and keep your country a perpetual war zone. Oh yea, we also want to control your oil, other natural resourses, and especially your opium. Waaa, Waaa you can't make us go , we don't want to !!! Only what we want is important !!! Waaaaa…
Afghans can be rented, not owned………………
Let the country of Afghanistan figure things out for themselves. We accomplished one thing there and that's showing the world we have no regard for our own citizens(military deployed ther) lives when it comes to the "war on terrorism". Read your history Napoleon, the British, the Russians did nothing there but wste money and their own people's lives and we come in thinking we are going to make a difference, idiocracy at it's finest. When its common practice and accepted for adult men to have sex with boys as young as 9 yrs old because their women are for bearing children but the boys are for pleasure….Who else see's something wrong with this picutre, thats just the tip of the iceberg. The best thing the President of the USA could is immediately withdraw all US personnel from Afghanistan and Iraq and let those countries figure out their own solutions to their problems.
Circumventing those democratic institutions the US poured billions to develop to get an agreement to stay in that country? Shadow intentions of the US.