Zebari Karzai: Do not be fooled by illusions, and signed an agreement retain the Americans
Zebari Karzai: Do not be fooled by illusions, and signed an agreement retain the Americans
12.19.2013 (0:01 pm)
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Years ago does not have an Iraqi official visit to Afghanistan. Today, in one of the most important chapters of the history of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai met with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari. Zebari told the Afghan president said his government has been unable even to protect the capital Baghdad after the withdrawal of U.S. troops in 2011. The aim of the trip Zebari facilitate the passage of Shiites Afghanistan to visit the holy shrines in Iraq. But it also coincided with the selection of Mr. Karzai to delay the signing of a security agreement with the United States, leaving the western military support and billions of dollars in aid pending. In a moment of candor, Mr. Zebari advice to Afghan President was not any Iraqi official thinks that two years ago: Let Khalavatk with the Americans aside, and signed the agreement. Zebari said “Do not be fooled by the illusion that the Iraqis they run through the presence of the Americans, they had come to stay, but they were eager to get out and they are eager to get out of your country, too.”
When the last American troops left Iraq in 2011 after the collapse of a security agreement similar, Iraqis rejoiced moment of moments of national pride, expressing their faith in the government’s ability to maintain security. Since then, Iraq plunges into hellish violence, with the fall of the thousands in sectarian attacks during the current year.
The Iraqi government is no longer able even to protect the capital, despite billions of dollars of oil revenues and well-trained security forces. So how the Afghan government hopes – which can barely finance 20% of what you spend each year – that dominate the country without U.S. assistance?
It was a moment of rational dialogue between both officials on various issues – I think the future of his country after the Americans and the second is trying to take a lesson from it. Learning from previous experiences, Mr. Zebari shared their experiences regarding the U.S. involvement in the Muslim world. Some similarities are clear for the Afghans, with the deepening impasse and turning into a crisis, some aide to Karzai that Iraq is proof that Americans can leave the security forces, leaving the country without military support and training without the center of a war against the Taliban. There is also the possibility of suspension of international aid required will lead to the collapse of the economy. And fears of a return to civil war in Afghanistan will top the theater.
Mr Karzai has heard all this talk before, Officials Americans have used the issue of withdrawal from Iraq as an example of a warning when talking with reporters and Afghan officials about efforts to reach a security agreement with Afghanistan.
In the days that followed telling Karzai that he would delay the signing of the Convention, a number of officials warned Americans that they will have to consider the “zero option” – a total withdrawal and the final in 2014 – if he insisted on his mind.
It seems that this is the attitude that the lyrics Zebari Karzai, resentment among Afghan officials, who were hoping to take their boss warned him of the problems of Iraq.
After the end of the meeting Bzibari Karzai told a group of officials, saying, “Look, the Americans in dire need of this Agreement to the extent that they are putting pressure on the Iraqis have made.”
In a television interview, Zebari insisted that his advice was an expression of good faith and not for the American service. He added, “two years after the departure of the Americans, and because of the escalating violence, we go back to Washington and asked them for continued support and military assistance (during Maliki’s visit to Washington early November) – and one has to infer from that.”
In 2011 collapsed important parts of the internal political consensus in Iraq. But within Karzai’s reaction on the advice of Mr. Zebari lies a fundamental causes for the possible departure of the United States from Afghanistan.
The reaction expression of lack of confidence allies the Americans, where he told French daily Le Monde, “even if they are not phishers, we will not give in to pressure to sign the agreement unless it is to meet our requirements, what I hear these days and what I heard from before is a kind of exploitation colonial. ”
In any case, the specter of Iraq was not used merely as a threat, it looms over every step of the controversy over the long-term presence of U.S. forces, inside the White House and inside the presidential palace in Afghanistan alike.
For Americans who want troops to stay, Iraq was a model for the decline, he says a senior official in the U.S. administration, “we can refer to what is happening in Iraq and say we can not allow this to happen in Afghanistan.”
While another official says that those who prefer a full withdrawal feel avoided catastrophe losses incurred in Iraq – did not leave Aqaibdna political costs at home as he saved the lives of Americans – and this applies to Afghanistan.
However, even those who felt comfortable to avoid disaster in Iraq are reluctant to see Afghanistan descend into bloodshed.
The result of the meeting of Afghan leaders last month (Loya Jirga), an expression of the need to sign a security agreement, as some of the Afghan masses at least want American support. Says an official in the U.S. administration, “U.S. officials do not want to punish the people of Afghanistan because of the intransigence of Mr. Karzai.”
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