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Afghanistan
Afghan president says he does not 'trust' US
2013-12-15
[Pak Daily Times] Visiting 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...
said in New Delhi on Saturday he no longer "trusts" the United States, accusing the Americans of saying one thing and doing another in his troubled homeland.

Karzai's statement to journalists came a day after he insisted he would not be "intimidated" into signing a security pact allowing US troops in Afghanistan to stay on after next year.

"I don't trust them," Karzai said in a wide-ranging discussion at a local hotel in which he singled out a letter US President Barack Obama
We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us...
wrote last month assuring him that US forces would "respect" the safety of Afghans in their homes.

Karzai was speaking on the second day of a three-day visit to India during which the United States hopes New Delhi can persuade him to sign the troubled troop deal.

Karzai, who is due to stand down after elections next year, initially endorsed the so-called Bilateral Security Agreement, or BSA.

But he later said the agreement could only be signed after the presidential election in April, warning against a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
presence if it just meant "more bombs and killings".

His stance has outraged US officials and politicians, who have threatened a complete forces pullout if Karzai does not sign by the end of the year.

"When Obama writes to me that he will respect homes, they should prove it... implement the letter, respect Afghan homes," Karzai said.
Posted by:Fred

#8  SecState Kerry = USA has repor declared an extension of time for Afghanistan to review + sign the BSA.

IMO Karzai is only too aware of the OWG Globalist "Co-superpower" agenda where the tip-of-the-spear-in-setting-up-OWG USA covertly SSSSHHHH .... CCCCCC helps Shia Iran become the world's first Islamic Superpower or Nuclear Superpower. ALL OF AFGHANISTAN'S FORMER OVERLORDS/MASTERS IN ASIA, INCLUD BUT NOT LIMITED TO SHIA IRAN, HAVE DESIRES TO RESTABLISH POTENT INFLUENCE IN THEIR FORMER TERRITORY, wid opportunity for such occurring post-2014 ala US-NATO pullout.

I believe Karzai is uncertain about where post-2014 Afghanistan, wid or widout US support + Balochistan maritime access, "fits" between the Globalist halves or other as seemingly divided in future between Rising Iran + other Asia-specific OWG "Co-Superpowers".

MORESO AS DEPENDING ON THE OUTCOME OF ANY US-CHINA GLOBALIST WAR IN EAST ASIA [India?] + PACIFIC???

OWG AMERIKA = NAU + TRANS-PAC + TRANS-ATLANTIC, OTHER? GLOBAL FED "UNIONS", N-O-T ANY "ASIAN UNION", CENTRAL ASIAN UNION, OR WEST ASIAN UNION, ETC.

US = "OVER THERE" IN THE AMERICAS, NOT "OVER HERE" IN WEST, CENTRAL, SOUTH ASIA.

* IIRC TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > ANALYSIS: STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OF ASIA IS STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OF THE WORLD.

"MACKINDER'S WORLD ISLAND" DOTH NOT OWG NORTH-SOUTH AMERIKA MAKETH.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-12-15 20:33  

#7  Who does (including most USA citizens)?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2013-12-15 14:39  

#6  Surely he wouldn't want to come back to the US, after all he doesn't trust us.

On the other hand, with the millions he has probably stolen and stashed safely in Swiss banks, he can retire any where he wants to.

Assuming he gets out alive.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2013-12-15 13:25  

#5  DON'T let this bastard back in the US
Posted by: Frank G   2013-12-15 12:32  

#4  This chump would not even be alive today if we didn't provide bodyguards for him. He can't even trust his own people.

There was one assassination attempt (by the ISI)where Karzai's palace guards were in on the plot. If I were him I'd be busy scouting new restaurant locations in Baltimore.
Posted by: Frozen Al   2013-12-15 12:11  

#3  Maybe he can get aid from Uzbekistan? Or Iran?
Posted by: Frank G   2013-12-15 12:09  

#2  Then we're even, Hamid.

I've NEVER trusted you.
Posted by: Barbara   2013-12-15 09:12  

#1  We have that in common. (Of course I tend towards the X-Files dictum of 'Trust no one.')
Posted by: Glenmore   2013-12-15 08:49  

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