Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Afghan deadline for SOFA missed
But the warmongers and merchants of death are perfectly willing to fudge the final deadline date so as not to lose the only war they have, at this point.
The conflict in Afghanistan has become the most unpopular in American history, a new poll shows, as U.S. and Afghan negotiators missed a deadline Tuesday to reach an agreement on whether U.S. troops can remain in the country after the official 2014 pullout of foreign forces.A recent analysis said that anything less than the numbers of troops at their highest would be able to save the kleptocracy of Karzai of the Afghans. The selfsame Karzai has said he is sick of foreigners telling him what to do in his own country. The Return On Investment in Afghanistan is the worst ever seen. So why would anybody consider anything other than "the so-called zero option" with all troops leaving?
About 82 percent of Americans don’t support the war in Afghanistan, according to a CNN-ORC poll released Monday. That’s up from around 46 percent in 2009. Those figures make America’s controversial conflicts in Iraq and even Vietnam seem relatively popular.
"Opposition to the Iraq war never got higher than 69% in CNN polling while U.S. troops were in that country, and while the Vietnam War was in progress, no more than six in 10 ever told Gallup's interviewers that war was a mistake,” said CNN’s Polling Director Keating Holland.
The United States had set a Tuesday deadline for Afghanistan to sign the pact but the White House has said it is prepared to let the deadline slip until early January.
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