Well Karzai, this is how it will play out - the U.S. will leave Afghanistan for the most part soon...the Taliban will overthrow your government in less than six months and they will kill you before you can say "allahu ackbar."
The story comes from DAWN.
Karzai in secret talks with Afghan Taliban: report
KABUL: Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has been holding secret talks with Taliban officials in the hope of persuading them to make peace with his government, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing unnamed Afghan and Western officials.
Karzai's spokesman could not reached for comment. But the Times, in its report, said the spokesman had confirmed contact had been made and described the past two months as positive.
Officials, however, told the paper the Taliban-initiated talks had been fruitless so far, although they may help explain Karzai's mounting public hostility to Washington.
In November — around the same time the secret talks reportedly began — Karzai announced his intention to avoid signing a bilateral security deal with the United States until after a presidential election in April.
Karzai has served two terms and cannot run again.
President Barack Obama, frustrated by Karzai's refusal to sign the accord, was due to meet top commanders at the White House on Tuesday to discuss the future of the US mission in Afghanistan.
Relations have deteriorated sharply over Karzai's refusal to sign, sapping already scant support for the war in Washington, which has halved aid for civilian assistance in the fiscal year 2014.
Washington has signalled it could pull all troops out after 2014, unless a deal is signed soon. This would leave Afghanistan's fledgling security forces to fight the Taliban insurgency alone and diplomats fear they would struggle to cope without US financial and military support.
The Taliban have vowed to derail the April 5 election and the recent spike in violence in the capital suggests secret talks with Karzai have made little difference over their stated intention to step up attacks.
Monthly incidents in January were at the highest since 2008, according to security officials, and the trend has continued into February, with two bombs going off in Kabul on Monday.
2 comments:
It's not all doom and gloom. The next Presidential elections are in two months. The favorites are candidates radically different from Hamid Karzai.
Focus on Afghanistan. Iran can look after itself. Once we do go nuclear, trade will increase with Afghanistan and thus benefit everyone.
Lt. Colonel(retired) Reza Pejman
You're nervous about us having the bomb because that means we will be independent and free from your bullying. The bomb stops your gravy train. You've gotten so used to getting your way out of other countries through bullying, manipulation and outright invasion, that you're blind to the changing world. You're becoming irrelevant by the day. And that scares you. So you rattle your saber to convince yourself that you are still relevant. That you still matter.
As for our Arab neighbors? Let them feel nervous. If they want to build one, they're free to do so. They won't fire first. For all their "pious" behavior in public, those "Sheikhs" in Dubai and Jeddah are quite hypocritical in private. They enjoy their little privileges the oil wealth has given them. They are not suicidal. Hence no pre-emptive wet dream for you.
We will eventually get the bomb, you and your AIPAC paymasters might gesticulate violently for a while and then come to terms with reality. Then Iran will be independent from war mongering individuals like yourself and that cartoonish character who calls himself Prime Minister of "Israel."
Lt. Colonel(retired) Reza Pejman
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