Posted on 2/2/2019, 4:15:58 PM by E. Pluribus Unum
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has offered to negotiate ways to minimize the costs of keeping U.S. troops in Afghanistan amid concern that U.S. forces will pull out of the region prematurely, a new report says.
Although Ghani did not include specific proposals for how to cut costs of U.S. troops and contractors in Afghanistan, his letter to President Trump dated Monday says the objective is “maximum effectiveness to aid efficiency.” He also requested Trump visit Afghanistan soon to “discuss a mutually beneficial path forward toward lasting peace and increased security for both of our countries and peoples,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Ghani also alluded to media reports that Trump instructed the Pentagon to withdraw half of the roughly 14,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan in December, although the National Security Council denied that such orders were given.
“While the Afghan government remains a steadfast and committed partner to the United States in the pursuit of our shared security and peace objectives, we are aware of the recent changes in the context of our relationships and a seeming shift in U.S. priorities and objectives in our country and the region,” Ghani wrote in the letter.
Although it was uncertain as of Thursday if Trump had received the correspondence, the letter comes after U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad met with the Taliban in Qatar last week.
Khalilzad said over the weekend that discussions with the Taliban in Qatar were “ more productive than they have been in the past” and that the U.S. and Taliban agreed on a draft framework that would pull out the U.S. troops from Afghanistan in the future, one of the Taliban’s top priorities.
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If they are not willing to shed their blood to stay free, why should we shed ours?
We’ve shown you that civilization is possible. It’s time to figure out how to do it for yourselves...
Show me the money.......
Illiterate
boy-humpers
fatalists
drug-addicted
drug-dealing
xenophobic
backward-minded
modernity-hating
They’re not even worth a SINGLE Amerian fingernail.
Afghans clearly aren’t interested in fighting the Taliban. Why should they be allowed to fight them to the last American G.I.? Maybe they should focus on that and not growing opium fields and making heroin.
GWB had us go in there in the first place because Afghanistan was harboring the terrorists who took down the towers. OK, revenge against the Taliban — I get that. But Afghanistan is always going to be harboring a bad element, so we can never ‘leave’ unless we change our minds about GWB’s reasoning. I think we’ve all reached that point.
They are stupid oafs who prefer the infidels (US soldiers) to do their fighting for them. Also, they’ve enjoyed US largesse for 17-18 years in building up their infrastructure. And they have the “toys” the US Military provides to play with. This is fun and games for them.
We went there to get bin Laden and punish his protectors for not handing him over. 17+ years later, what are we doing? What would victory look like? Democracy? Do we “win” when the Afgans have trannies reading to their children, too, or is victory achieved at some point before that?
“Our SHARED security objectives”
VERY interesting.
What are they, I wonder..?
The unquenchable American desire for DIRT..?
ha ha ha
I like your sense of humour....
islam can’t do it.
The UN has always been on a big drive to wipe out global poverty and illiteracy... but you have to ask why is it that all these nations are islamic????
Yea oh yea... the United Nations of islam want to raid the west to lift their piratical peoples.
You can’t negotiate the loss of a son or a daughter. In Vietnam General Westmorland bragged about a 20-1 kill ratio to a reporter. The reporter said moms don’t care about the 20, only the one.
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.
— Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 [London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899]).
Get out now! The place us nothing but a 7th century, third world Muslim hell hole, and that us all it will ever be.
Yup.
See below...
The Taliban had almost completely eradicated the Opium Poppy industry. They are worried they might be able to do it again.
Renounce Islam and we’ll consider it.
Pakistan is a pack of wolves which will tear Afghanistan apart once a vacuum is created.
We have no national interests in A’stan anymore.
We are NOT the world’s policemen. They can handle their own affairs.
Paul wanted to use the Constitutional remedy for fighting terrorists: Letters of Marquee and Reprisal.
Which means: Private mercenaries or special ops forces could have fought and eliminated the terrorists.
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