Sarah Palin warns of "dangerous" Afghanistan development

Potential Republican presidential candidate Sarah Palin warned today that Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai's recent clash with NATO is a "dangerous" development that could lead to a scenario in which the U.S. should immediately withdraw both troops and aid from Afghanistan.

Following recent air strikes that mistakenly killed a group of children and women, Karzai said Tuesday he will no longer allow NATO air strikes on houses. He suggested Afghan defense forces could take unilateral action to prevent such strikes, and he warned NATO risked being perceived as an "occupying force."

"If this is repeated, Afghanistan has a lot of ways of stopping it, but we don't want to go there," Karzai said. "We want NATO to stop the raids on its own, without a declaration ... by the Afghan government, because we want to continue to cooperate."

In a Facebook note today, Palin said the remarks revealed "a growing divide between NATO and the Karzai government."

"If President Karzai continues with these public ultimatums, we must consider our options about the immediate future of U.S. troops in his country," Palin said. "If he actually follows through on his claim that Afghan forces will take 'unilateral action' against NATO forces who conduct such air raids to take out terrorists and terrorist positions, that should result in the immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan and the suspension of U.S. aid."

Palin said that Karzai surely knows that NATO is working to eliminate civilian casualties. A NATO spokesperson said on Tuesday that the alliance takes Karzai's concerns very seriously and will continue to do everything to avoid civilian casualties, but she said attacks on houses are coordinated with Afghan forces and continue to be necessary.

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Palin's commentary comes as more lawmakers, both Democrat and Republican, are questioning the ongoing operations in Afghanistan. Last week, 26 Republicans and all but eight Democrats supported anamendment to the Defense authorization bill that would have called for "a plan and timeframe on accelerated transition of military operations to Afghan authorities." However, the amendment failed.

President Obama has promised to scale back the number of forces in Afghanistan by this July. The Washington Post reports that when the administration decides how many troops to bring home, the biggest consideration will be the cost of the war. The U.S. is slated to spend $113 billion in Afghanistan this fiscal year, and it is seeking $107 billion for the next.

"Where we're at right now is simply not sustainable," an unnamed senior administration official told the Post.

Palin, meanwhile, is building speculation about her political future as she continues on a bus tour billed as a trip to "energize Americans." So far, she has kept the media on its toes, with little advance notice of where her trip will take her.

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[obboy2037]

Thank God Sarah Palin will never be in a position to dictate foreign policy -- not as any sort of elected representative!

Anyone who thinks she represents them is someone I feel sorry for, not having common sense and perception of people's motives and all.

[justme2012]

I feel sorry for anyone stupid enough to vote for a man who doesn't even know what year it is.

[JV1970]

obboy2037 You're another on who doesn't know Sarah Palin at all!

[noloyalisti]

I have not been exposed to someone who is so brainless, ignorant, uneducated and clueless since Bushoccio, the figurehead of the Bush Crime Family.

[justme2012]

Weiner will expose himself to you, just tweet him.

[JV1970]

If that's what you think of her, you're another one who doesn't know Sarah Palin at all!

[boatdocster]

Following recent air strikes that mistakenly killed a group of children and women, Karzai said Tuesday he will no longer allow NATO air strikes on houses.

"In a Facebook note today, Palin said the remarks revealed "a growing divide between NATO and the Karzai government."

How clueless can this bimbo be? Every half way decent leader and/or military commander knows bombing innocent women and children is one of the surest ways to fuel a rebellion. And since we seem to "Keep Doing It" in Afghanistan, we have backed Karzai in to a corner where he has to same something to support his people.

Grow up and get real Sarah. This is not life as you perceive it on FOX NOISE - real people are getting killed!

[justme2012]

So, you are in support of the US bombing innocent women and children?

Or are you in support of telling Obama to get our troops out?

Obama's death bombs

or Sarah's troop removal?

[deltaalphabravo]

She is going to have to point out on a map exactly where Afghanistan is before I will listen to what she has to say on the matter. She holds no credibility with me or any of my family with respect to her abilities to run anything more than a city council seat in a small town.

[JV1970]

You wouldn't believe it if she did!

[justme2012]

So you speak for all of your family? Are they not allowed to make up their own minds? Are you like the man of the family and everyone tows the line around you? That is what it sounds like.

[VicenteRodolfo]

Here's my question: Who placed a microphone near her mouth? Why does the gullible News outlets(ABC,CBS, NBC, etc.) continue to give SLP free publicity? At this moment in time she is being very "Mavericky" and not telling the majors what or where, but she is talking to FOX! She's not going to run. She is taking all the wind out of the other candidates sails. and she knows it.

[justme2012]

Why are you reading about her and commenting on her?

YOU are the reason they continue to give her publicity.

LOL


Keep posting!

[dzaffina]

MCCONNELL: The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.

John Boehner: Over the last two years since President Obama has taken office the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs. And if some of those jobs are lost in this, so be it. Cantor told the audience of speculators that his Republican caucus would "do our part" to block the implementation of financial reforms passed last year as part of the sweeping Dodd-Frank law. Cantor Says Congress Won't Pay For Missouri Disaster Relief Unless Spending Is Cut Elsewhere

[justme2012]

Tim Geitner said that if we don't pass raising the debt ceiling that we face "economic catastrophe".

Senate democrats vote unanimously NO to Obama's 2012 budget.

Obama says he wants a "clean" bill to raise the debt.

The house gave him one and it was defeated by a bi-partisan vote with only 97 democrats willing to raise the debt with no cuts in spending.

Obama's plan???????

No one knows.

[justme2012]

I see no one knows the democrat plan.

They don't seem to have one.

So, they didn't vote on a clean bill to raise the debt, they don't have a budget of their own, so are they planning to let us face 'economic catastrophe' that Obama says will happen!!!!!!


I knew Obama wanted to destroy America, but I didn't realize all democrats in congress feel the same way.

(And no weiner's weiner has not been actually seen, though some who received the tweets said they tried zoom but it didn't help)

[RET-ABNRGR-CSM]

Who said it?

This is a fun quiz. Listed below are 10 direct quotes. You have to guess which American politician said it. Ready? Here we go!


1. "Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's."

A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush

2. "I've now been in 57 states I think I have one left to go."

A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush

3. "On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes, and I see many of them in the audience here today."

A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush

4. "What they'll say is, 'Well it costs too much money,' but you know what?
It would cost, about. It it it would cost about the same as what we would spend. It. Over the course of 10 years it would cost what it would costs us.
(nervous laugh) All right. Okay. We're going to. It. It would cost us about the same as it would cost for about hold on one second. I can't hear myself.
But I'm glad you're fired up, though. I'm glad."

A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush

5. "The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system."

A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush

6. "I bowled a 129. It's like - it was like the Special Olympics, or something.

A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush

7. "Of the many responsibilities granted to a president by our Constitution, few are more serious or more consequential than selecting a Supreme Court justice. The members of our highest court are granted life tenure, often serving long after the presidents who appointed them. And they are charged with the vital task of applying principles put to paper more than 20 centuries ago to some of the most difficult questions of our time."

A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush

8. "Everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma, they end up taking up a hospital bed, it costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early and they got some treatment, and a, a breathalyzer, or inhalator, not a breathalyzer. I haven't had much sleep in the last 48 hours."

A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush

9. "It was interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There's a lot of I don't know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing."

A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush

10. "I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future."

A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush

Sorry. This was a trick quiz. All of the correct answers are the same person. Each of these quotes are directly from President Barack Obama. And now you know why he brings his teleprompter with him everywhere he goes ...
even when talking to a 6th grade class!!!

He is absolutely clueless...

And liberals call George W. Bush dumb!!!!

[justme2012]

2008

LOL

[Paul_I]

Cutting and pasting from internet emails? Certainly nobody never misspeaks and when they do, it makes for a good laugh. Our Presidents have all kept us entertained.

[user000049586849302948603]

Sarah "The Quitter" Palin: "I attended half a dozen community colleges and that qualifies me to comment on world affairs."

[justme2012]

Obama, "My daddy who abandoned me as an infant was foreign, that qualifies me to comment on world affairs"

[justme2012]

Obama, "I had gay servants cooking for me as a child, so that qualifies me to speak for gays, servants and foreigners."

[brian_norwood]

Oh for God's sake! This vacuous woman, who two years ago probably couldn't point out Afghanistan on a globe is giving foreign affairs opinions?

Puleeeeeeze!

[justme2012]

Is Obama still looking for that 58th state he hasn't visted?

[akwriter]

Palin has a habit of declaring the obvious and trying to make it appear as thought she's the first who thought of it. Duh..... For someone who quit her office after two years and left the state of Alaska high and dry while she followed the money trail, Palin offers little to America other than a diversion for the news media from real news. As for Afghanistan, President Obama is already setting the stage for troop removal, but instead of reporting that, the media puts a pizza meeting between Palin and Trump on the front page. Most of the media these days is truly embarrassing.

[justme2012]

hahahahaha

So you agree with her.