Afghan president Hamid Karzai says that Afghanistan does not need US troops to stay beyond the currently agreed upon departure date at the end of 2014.\u00a0 He stated that his country’s forces are fully trained to be able to repel any foreign invaders.\u00a0 He included any Special Forces operators in this unequivocal renouncement of any dependence on the US.\u00a0 He also reiterated again that he will not sign a pact already negotiated and agreed upon between our country and his country’s ruling tribal leaders.\u00a0 This pact would have allowed for a token force of human targe… er… Soldiers to train his military and operators to hunt and kill Al Qaeda and Taliban.\u00a0 If we want to bring peace to Afghanistan, we should attack Pakistan, he says.<\/p>\n
I say, give him what he wants.\u00a0 He wants us out, let us leave.\u00a0 We do not have to wait until the end of the year.\u00a0 He will not be in power by then and will certainly blame the fall of his country on either his successor or the US (likely both).\u00a0 If we left now, we could be gone before their elections and he could preside over the demise of his backward country.\u00a0 He’ll likely use the attacks that will come as a catalyst to return to power against their own constitution.\u00a0 But hell, he has learned from our own leaders that the Constitution is but a mere tool to gain and retain power.\u00a0 We can use the parts we like and trounce on the parts we do not.<\/p>\n
Does anyone really think he is going to simply move out of the presidential palace and go back to his mud hut in the Karz region of Kandahar?\u00a0 No, he is going to take the billions of US tax payer dollars he has siphoned from our military and economic support and retire to a villa in France or some other posh resort where people overlook his rancid traits because he pays them well.<\/p>\n
Nope, I say expedite his wishes.\u00a0 Let’s get the fuck out of there using a scorched earth process.\u00a0 The first thing scorched?\u00a0 The poppy fields which produce the ingredients needed for the production of heroin–their chief export.\u00a0 We leave nothing we built intact and erect.\u00a0 No vehicles, no trainers, no spare parts, no caches of ammunition, weapons or food.\u00a0 And the last thing we take?\u00a0 Our aid.\u00a0 Not a damn dime.\u00a0 The first thing we deny? Technology.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe previously unknown deposits<\/b> \u2014 including huge veins of\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 iron, copper,\u00a0\u00a0cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium \u2014 are so big and include so \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 many minerals that are essential to modern industry that Afghanistan could\u00a0eventually be transformed into one of the most important mining centers in the\u00a0world, the United States officials believe.”<\/p>\n
The deposits were discovered in 2010 by a team Pentagon officials and American geologists.\u00a0 Not Afghan officials or goat farmers from local villages.\u00a0 Americans.\u00a0 There are wide veins of gold, copper, iron ore, oil, lithium, and coal.\u00a0 Estimates of their value range from one to three trillion dollars and could easily propel Afghanistan away from a country producing heroin to one rich in industry and high paying employment.\u00a0 But they are not going get that shit out of the ground with their farming hoes and sheep switches.\u00a0 No, you need drills and other heavy moving equipment–shit we have a lot of and build more of.<\/p>\n
We went there and saved his ass and his country’s.\u00a0 And this is gratitude?\u00a0 Fuck him.\u00a0 And anyone like him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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