Afghanistan demands 'timeline' for end of military intervention

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Source: The Raw Story

President Hamid Karzai demanded on Tuesday at a meeting with a UN Security Council team that the international community set a "timeline" for ending military intervention in Afghanistan, his office said.

Karzai told a delegation from the Council that his country needed to know how long the US-led "war on terror" was going to be fought in Afghanistan or it would be forced to seek a political solution to a Taliban-led insurgency.

"The international community should give us a timeline of how long or how far the war on terrorism will go," Karzai's chief spokesman Homayun Hamidzada cited the president as telling the meeting.

"If we don't have a clear idea of how long it will be, the Afghan government has no choice but to seek political solutions," he told AFP.

Read more: http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Afghanistan_demands_timeline_for_en_11252008.html

[ixion]

1. oops... so much for the Afghanistan 'surge'...

time to pull out the troops and end illegal occupations!

[HereSince1628]

2. Hmm, the US WOT in Afganistan prevents Afgans from a political solution?

That has a very curious sound to it, doesn't it?

Don't all parties want a political solution?

[babylonsister]

3. The lack of interest in this is amazing me:

I think Karzai wants to start a dialogue with us and the Taliban. (h/t Spencer)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4533549

[atimetocome]

4. Afgan does have an elected government. I wonder

if this can or will be viewed as an invasion (as Iraq was viewed by many) if the US goes ahead with increased troops or stays. What a mess.