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bigtree

(85,996 posts)
Tue May 1, 2012, 09:18 PM May 2012

Strategic Agreement


REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque


President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai sign the Strategic Partnership Agreement at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, May 2, 2012


REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque


REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque



(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)



(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)



REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque


speech and video: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/05/01/president-obama-ending-war-afghanistan

highlights of US-Afghanistan strategic partnership: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/highlights-of-us-afghanistan-strategic-partnership-deal-signed-by-obama-and-karzai/2012/05/01/gIQA9lJwuT_print.html
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Strategic Agreement (Original Post) bigtree May 2012 OP
obama is not looking like his generally sincere self in that last picture. nt seabeyond May 2012 #1
Can you blame him? phasma ex machina May 2012 #3
did i blame him? no. i dont have a problem with obama seabeyond May 2012 #5
I don't think he trusts, or particularily likes, Karsai bigtree May 2012 #4
yup. agreed. nt seabeyond May 2012 #6
Is that the check ledger that Obama is handing over to Karzai? n/t Earth_First May 2012 #2
 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
5. did i blame him? no. i dont have a problem with obama
Tue May 1, 2012, 09:24 PM
May 2012

an observation. no more. i am used to his sincere self. obvious in that last picture he has some issues.

bigtree

(85,996 posts)
4. I don't think he trusts, or particularily likes, Karsai
Tue May 1, 2012, 09:24 PM
May 2012

. . . understandable, since he knows well of the differences that have occurred between our government and military and his regime.

. . . great observation, seabeyond.

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