Karzai orders US special forces out of Afghan province

[Jos]

The Afghan president has ordered US special forces to leave Wardak province within two weeks over allegations of disappearances and torture.

Mr Karzai gave a blunt statement for the reasons for the ban.

"Our forces ask for air support from foreigners and children get killed in an air strike," he said.

BBC News - Karzai orders US special forces out of Afghan province

 

[Mad Scientist]

"Special Forces" are to go so that means the Regular Army and Marines can stay to help ensure the Opium Production.

EDIT: And it's just one Province (County? State?) Not the entire Country.

 

[freedombecki]

I think President Karzai lives on a slippery slope--just a couple of years ago, didn't they say he jumped down into his brother's grave weeping because terrorists killed him? So he lives between doing the right thing and doing what terrorists demand or have members of his family killed.

That's not a very good place to be with a minority of people getting everything they want and ask for by threats and retaliation for not doing things their way.

The terrorists could be running the country with Karzai taking all the flak from both sides.

Think I'll mosey over to the Department of State and see what the story is for Americans to travel to Afghanistan and transfer the info here:

The Department of State warns U.S. citizens against travel to Afghanistan. The security threat to all U.S. citizens in Afghanistan remains critical. This Travel Warning supersedes the Travel Warning for Afghanistan issued on June 27, 2012, and reminds U.S. citizens of ongoing security risks, including kidnapping and insurgent attacks.
No region in Afghanistan should be considered immune from violence, and the potential exists throughout the country for hostile acts, either targeted or random, against U.S. and other Western nationals at any time. Remnants of the former Taliban regime and the al-Qaida terrorist network, as well as other groups hostile to International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) military operations, remain active. Afghan authorities have a limited ability to maintain order and ensure the security of Afghan citizens and foreign visitors. Travel in all areas of Afghanistan is unsafe due to military combat operations, landmines, banditry, armed rivalry between political and tribal groups, and the possibility of insurgent attacks, including attacks using vehicle-borne or other improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The security situation remains volatile and unpredictable throughout the country.
There is an ongoing and significant risk of kidnapping and assassination of U.S. citizens and Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) employees throughout the country.
Buildings or compounds that lack robust security measures in comparison to neighboring facilities may be viewed as targets of opportunity by insurgents.
Ambushes, robberies, and violent crime can add to the insecurity in many areas of the country. U.S. citizens involved in property or business disputes -- a common legal problem in Afghanistan -- have reported that their adversaries in the disputes have threatened their lives. U.S. citizens who find themselves in such situations should not assume that either local law enforcement or the U.S. Embassy will be able to assist them in resolving these disputes.

Travel to AFghanistan

 

[Bigfoot]

I doubt that President Karzai would last long if we pulled out.

 

[High_Gravity]

Good, can he just order us out of that whole shit hole country too?

 

[editec]

Looks like the Pakistani American alliance is unraveling.