U.S. said to mull shifting Afghanistan exit plans
Source: UPI
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- A frustrated White House may wait until Afghanistan has a new leader before working out a troop withdrawal and post-withdrawal troop presence, officials said.
It may also just withdraw all U.S. troops by the end of the year, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The possibility of waiting reflects an increasing Pentagon and White House belief relations with Afghan President Hamid Karzai will not improve and he probably won't sign the bilateral security agreement, or BSA, with the United States before Afghanistan's presidential elections in April, the Journal said.
"If he's not going to be part of the solution, we have to have a way to get past him," a senior U.S. official told the newspaper. "It's a pragmatic recognition that clearly Karzai may not sign the BSA and that he doesn't represent the voice of the Afghan people."
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... Corporate Amerika doesn't want to shut off the treasury spigot that Afghanistan is - screw what our country's citizenry wants! 
Obama wanted the US to stay in Iraq, and now they want the US to stay in Afghanistan.
Neocon, neoliberal, neo-whatever! Perpetual war and the toys that fuel it is the only thing sustaining this economy. 
