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Afghanistan
Jizya: Karzai wants 'at least $2 billion' a year from US
2012-04-18
Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
on Tuesday said he wanted "at least $2 billion" a year from the United States after it withdraws its troops in 2014.

Karzai said the US should specify in a partnership agreement to be signed between his country and the US how much money it will give to Afghanistan after they leave.

"They (US) say we will give you money, but will not specify the amount. We say give us less, but write it down," Karzai told a group of university professors and students in Kabul.

"We want them to write down that America will give for Afghanistan's security $2 billion a year -- or at least two billion a year", he said. "If they want to give us more, they are welcome."

Karzai's comments came a day after he laid most of the blame for an 18-hour assault by squads of Taliban bully boyz in Kabul Sunday on intelligence failures by NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization....
forces.

Kabul has already achieved two preconditions for signing the treaty -- full control over the US-run Bagram prison and controversial special forces night raids against Taliban krazed killers.

Officials on both sides have expressed hope that a strategic partnership agreement governing post-2014 ties could be signed ahead of a NATO summit in Chicago in May.

"We don't want them to spend a lot of money here, we would like to help them save their money, but give some to us too," Karzai said.
Posted by:trailing wife

#8  The $100b a year we're spending in Afghanistan is way bigger than $2b. My guess is that he's expecting a few hundred mil and figured he'd get the ball rolling with a $2b proposal. I think we should provide at least the amount we handed to the mujahideen to bleed the Soviets, conditional upon a non-Pashtun assuming the reins of power. We can fund it with the zeroing out of the aid budget for Pakistan when we withdraw from Afghanistan. Think of it as an economical way to bleed the Pakis. We also need to turn a blind eye as Afghanistan's non-Pashtuns help to resettle the Pashtuns in a country where they belong - Pakistan.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2012-04-18 17:52  

#7  How about a bullet instead?
Posted by: mojo   2012-04-18 13:10  

#6  I believe "Fuck You Assholes" is the correct response.
Posted by: DarthVader   2012-04-18 12:24  

#5  Should have dusted off the pre-communist constitution and forced the old king in as a puppet with the Northern Alliance behind him. Instead we sort of turned our back on the Northern alliance for this joker?
Posted by: rjschwarz   2012-04-18 10:29  

#4  Karzai is a swindling Taliban to the core. I wouldn't give him the sweat from my codpiece. Out of there, quickly without doubt or discussion.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-04-18 08:22  

#3  We need to make sure that the first Americans to leave are Karzai's security detail, even if they aren't active duty troops.

See how he feels about that.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2012-04-18 07:53  

#2  ...I'm sure other will do it for free, as a departing salute.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-04-18 07:50  

#1  "We want them to write down that America will give for Afghanistan's security $2 billion a year -- or at least two billion a year", he said. "If they want to give us more, they are welcome."

How about the last thing we do when we leave there is shoot this Afghani pimp in the head.
Posted by: tu3031   2012-04-18 00:08  

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