“Last year, during my visit to Washington, in a very important briefing a day before I met U.S. President [Barack Obama], his national security adviser Tom Donilon, and senior White House officials, generals, and intelligence officials, the national security adviser met with me. He told me: ‘The Taliban are not our enemies and we don’t want to fight them.’” — Hamid Karzai, November 26, 2013
Obama and Karzai seem to have forgotten to inform the Taliban that they’re not the enemy and need not fight.
“Taliban attack on checkpoints leaves 21 Afghan soldiers dead,” by Rahim Faiez for The Associated Press, February 23 (thanks to Kenneth):
KABUL – Hundreds of heavily armed Taliban insurgents attacked army checkpoints in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, officials said, killing 21 soldiers in the deadliest single incident for the Afghan army in at least a year.
In response to the assault — which also left several Afghan soldiers missing — President Hamid Karzai postponed a planned trip to Sri Lanka.
Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi, who is spokesman for the Defence Ministry, said “hundreds” of foreign and Afghan insurgents crossed the border to mount the attack, which took place in the remote and mountainous Ghazi Abad district of Kunar Province in the early morning hours.
Azimi did not specify which border, but Kunar lies next to Pakistan. It’s a militant stronghold, and many Arab and other foreign insurgents are believed to operate there alongside the Afghan Taliban.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for Sunday’s attack in an emailed statement, saying that one of their insurgents was killed and two were wounded….
Rudy from Canada says
Hamid Karzai is a criminal.
He is backed by the USA and like most puppets is starting to have his strings pulled by someone else.
Obama is so naive.
But what can you expect by someone who has surrounded themselves with the Islamic enemy.
Jerry says
Obama is not naive.
He was born and broght up as Muslim.
He is a fake Christian.
He does is utmost to advance the Islamic cause
in the USA and elsewhere.
He should be impeached
and prosecuted for treason
against the USA and the
USA Constitution.
It is the American leftists and,
unfortunately both Democrats
and Republicans who try
(unsuccessfully) to appease
Islam whor are naive.
joeb says
Obama isn’t naive. He knows exactly what he’s doing. He said precisely what he was going to do before he was elected, and he’s been doing it ever since.
It can be argued that Obama is one of, if not the most successful presidents in history in terms of getting done what he promised.
veggiedog says
Obama is anything but naive, he knows exactly what is going on and applauds it, encourages it. He is divisive and will continue to be so. His goal is to look for an excuse to call for Martial Law so we will not get rid of him in 3 years, heaven help us if this happens. But to call him naive misses the point of who this man is. He surrounds himself with his Islamic friends, they are not his enemy, they may be ours but they are not his.
Sovereign Man says
Obama is a decoy. He was picked by the Marxist cabal that is in control of most of the Democrat party. The guy can barely string together a sentence when not on teleprompter. He has had fewer press conferences than any president in modern times (and probably ever). He is an easy target for drawing hatred and attention from the real puppet masters, and the leftists know that the Republicans are afraid to criticize him for fear of being called racist.
The real powers behind him are the Chicago gang of Marxist terrorists including William Ayers (and his father’s bank account from being president of Consolidated Edison in Chicago), Valerie Jarrett, Van Jones, David Axlerod, Rahm Emmanuel, Eric Holder, Cass Sunstein, Samantha Power, et al. Some of the appointees of this inner circle include suspected Muslim converts/traitors (John Brennan), and the rest are either ideological comrades, or inept patronage appointments.
mortimer says
More drones, more sniffing dogs, more snipers.