Hamid Karzai playing strong hand against Obama in security negotiations
The Obama administration continues to get played in crucial national security negotiations by Afghanistan’s president Hamid Karzai.
The accidental killing last week of a 2-year old civilian in a U.S. airstrike, which Karzai condemned, has given the Afghan leader even more leverage in his negotiations over U.S. troop withdrawals.
The U.S. wants to be able to keep up to 10,000 troops in Afghanistan after its withdrawal at the end of 2014, but Karzai is stalling on the negotiations. Though senior elders want Karzai to sign the security agreement, Karzai does not appear prepared to accept the U.S. terms, and the Obama administration is “losing confidence” in him. Susan Rice talked to him last Monday in Kabul, but Karzai didn’t budge.
Without a deal, the Obama administration will withdraw completely at the end of 2014 the way it did previously in Iraq — a move that has been blamed for recent violence in the country.
Wild Thing’s comment.…………
Why not, Obama has the worst foreign policy. All he wants to do is to kiss up to his freaking Muslims, terrorists and anything against our troops. .
The puppet leader of one of the weakest nations on earth is standing up to the President of the US and getting his way. What an embarrassment.