Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai speaks during a joint news conference with Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (not pictured) in Kabul November 30, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Mohammad Ismail
Afghanistan's Karzai Rebuffs U.S. Pressure To Sign Security Deal -- Reuters
(Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has criticized what he said was pressure from the United States to accept a security agreement, accusing Washington of behaving like a colonial power.
Karzai has thrown the pact shaping the U.S. military presence post-2014 into doubt in the past by saying that he would only sign if new conditions were met and then only after elections in April.
In an interview with French newspaper Le Monde, Karzai said the special U.S. envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, James Dobbins, had effectively told him during a recent visit to Kabul that without a security agreement there would be no peace.
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Update: Afghan president lashes out at US 'threats' -- AP
My Comment: Karzai has already tipped his hand on who he wants to "go to bed with" ....we in the West must acknowledge this realignment and accept the fact that this is now an Afghan internal affair. We can advise but not coerce .... and if they want us to leave .... we should leave and not look back.
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