Afghan president says the sooner foreign troops leave Afghan villages, the better

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/afghan-president-says-the-sooner-foreign-troops-leave-afghan-villages-the-better/2012/12/15/37df5478-4692-11e2-8c8f-fbebf7ccab4e_story.html


Ahmad Jamshid/Associated Press - Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, arrives for a group photo for an ambassadors and consuls general conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012. Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday that the U.S. and NATO troops transferring security to Afghan forces should leave Afghan villages as soon as possible and pull back to their bases.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s president said Saturday that the U.S. and NATO troops transferring security to local forces should leave the country’s villages as soon as possible and pull back to their bases.

The U.S. has already said that from mid-2013 on, the United States and its allies would operate from fewer bases and that the withdrawal of military supplies and equipment from Afghanistan would accelerate. But the comments from the Afghan leader suggest he would like to see that process gain some momentum.

“There will be a change in our relations with the world in 2013,” President Hamid Karzai said at the opening of a conference on Afghan foreign policy strategy. “The U.S. and NATO forces are going to withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, but before that — in 2013 — the transition of security is going to be completed and there will be no military activity of foreign forces in Afghanistan.”

“We are working to make this transition of security happen sooner. We want all the foreign forces to come out of the villages and go to their bases so the Afghan forces can carry out the security,” Karzai said, adding that that after the international forces pull back to their bases, they can gradually return home from there, completing the withdrawal by the end of 2014.



***well, that settles it then...LETS GET THE FUCK OUTA THERE.

[Solly Mack]

1. Thanks for posting.

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2. ...

[unhappycamper]

3. Obviously the Department of War disagrees with "LETS GET THE FUCK OUTA THERE."

I've been saying that since my two tours in Nam.

[jsr]

4. And quit paying for his DynCorp bodyguards