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Karzai calls for withdrawal timeline for Afghanistan.
Think Progress — ... Today, Afghan President Hamid Karzai told a visiting U.N. Security Council delegation that the international community should set a date to end the war in Afghanistan. “If there is no deadline, we have the right to find another solution for peace and security, which is negotiations,” Karzai reportedly said. Spencer Ackerman notes, “One thing that’s been entirely missing from the policy debate on Afghanistan — in the U.S., in NATO, in Afghanistan — is that no one even pretends to think about how the war is supposed to end. ...

Into Afghanistan?
Ben Smith's Blog — Hamid Karzai seems not to be co-operating with American plants to ramp up involvement in Afghanistan: President Hamid Karzai told a visiting U.N. Security Council delegation Tuesday that the international community should set a timeline to end the war in Afghanistan. It appeared to be the first time Karzai has called for a time limit on the international effort to defeat Taliban militants and raise a stable and competent Afghan security force and government. "If there is no deadline, we have the right to find another solution for peace and ...

You Ain’t Gotta Go Home But You Gotta Get The Hell Up Outta Here
Firedoglake — ... That's basically what Hamid Karzai just told the U.S., for real. To call this unexpected is really quite an understatement. From the Associated Press: ...

Doing A Maliki: Karzai Demands Timetable In Afghanistan
Newshoggers.com — ... Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called for a timetable to end the occupation of Afghanistan by Western forces or if not , that the West must accept negotiations with the Taliban to end bloodshed there. ...

Doing a Maliki: Karzai Demands Timetable In Afghanistan
Crooks and Liars — ... Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called for a timetable to end the occupation of Afghanistan by Western forces or if not, said that the West must accept negotiations with the Taliban to end bloodshed there. ...