Obama willing to extend deadline on U.S.-Afghanistan security deal

[anatta]

The shift comes after weeks of debate on how to persuade Hamid Karzai to sign the deal allowing U.S. forces to stay past 2014
Obama remains committed to the Afghan security agreement and wants the strategic planning to begin now.
But several aides said he had agreed in principle to let the Dec. 31 signing deadline slide for several weeks.

Some in Obama's inner circle are so exasperated with Karzai that they are willing to wait until the Afghan presidential election is held April 5, as Karzai has demanded, hoping his successor will then sign the pact.
That option remains under consideration, but Obama is unlikely to wait that long

Obama willing to extend deadline on U.S.-Afghanistan security deal - latimes.com

usual dithering, usual hard deadlines missed (remind you of the ACA?), usual "clinging" to a security pact with a bunch of devils.

We left Iraq with no State of Forces Agreement (SOFA), and the place blew up in sectarian killings.
Not so much sectarian problems in Afg - just a bunch of zealots (Taliban) whom are suppose to "find a role in the Afg. gov't"

The Taliban aren't going to be satisfied with a supporting role - they want the reins.

So we stay there in perpetutity, or we pack up our kit bags and scramble out ASAP.
I vote for the later - AQ "central" in Paki is fairly degraded - the AQAP, and Africa ( etc. ) are the new frontiers in Perpetual War on Terror.

No point to staying in Afg.

 

[Montecresto]

We have total control over the ME.

 

[Helix]

Bring them home now.