Posted on 04/17/2012 10:48:50 AM PDT by ColdOne
Afghan President Hamid Karzai 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.
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that sounds like a much better solution.
If anyone deserved a “pound sand” response, he’s the one.
When Karzai first came on the scene, I was in his corner. Now days, he’s a complete and utter disappointment and enemy to the US. Karzai can sit and spin.
my policy- just say no to drugs and thugs
"You'll get nothing, and like it!"
Bush sure made a mess out of things over there. Damn huge mess.
Your problem is that you are trying to use logic.
Common sense in American politics went out of the door the day we joined the UN.
Will he take a check?
FU. You kicked us out. Fend for yourself.
He should have listened to me when I advocated going in, smashing everything flat, and getting out again.
Nation building is the dumbest thing we've ever tried to do as a Nation. Ranks right up there with election a Socialist President.
Typing too fast. Proofreading too slow...
” Damn, I only want 1 billion. Does this mean I am a better deal?”
If you will take 500 million, I will subit the offer for you.
” Damn, I only want 1 billion. Does this mean I am a better deal?”
If you will take 500 million, I will submit the offer for you.
Me too.
The answer is NO...Heck No! The blood and missing limbs and body parts of our good soldiers, so you might be free, paid whatever price. There is no debt owed....there never was.
Let Karzi and his people wallow and sink for all I care...he had an opportunity to completely free his people... You kick us out...you don't get one dime!
I'm just sorry we didn't bomb the entire country and get rid of the stench of Islam altogether there. The people have zip-zero hope otherwise of every having a better life...none.
Nation building only works once a nation has been utterly defeated and the will of it’s people to resist completely broken. That did not happen in either Afgan or Iraq. Lots of us knew after the first battle of Fa-lu-ga that the mission was toast.
Two bil? No problem. What are you going to sell us for it?
Obama to Karzai
“Thank you sir!......May I have another...”
Bush sure made a mess out of things over there. Damn huge mess.
I take that as sarcasm. Bush had the Taliban on the ropes and all but defeated.
Obama has seized defeat out of the jaws of victory. As soon as Obama instituted his new crazy and defeatist rules of engagement our casualty rate more than doubled and we began to lose control of the situation.
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