From the Denver Post:
The U.S. designation Saturday of
Afghanistan as its newest "major non-NATO ally" amounts to a political
statement of support for the country's long-term stability and
solidifies close defense cooperation after American combat troops
withdraw in 2014.
"We see this as a powerful commitment to
Afghanistan's future," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
said at a news conference during a brief stop in the Afghan capital. "We
are not even imagining abandoning Afghanistan," she said in the grand
courtyard of the presidential palace after talks with President Hamid
Karzai.
The non-NATO ally declaration allows for streamlined
defense cooperation, including expedited purchasing ability of American
equipment and easier export control regulations. Afghanistan's military,
heavily dependent on American and foreign assistance, already enjoys
many of these benefits. The non-NATO ally status guarantees it will
continue to do so.
And then you read a story like this, from CNN:
Six U.S. troops were killed by an improvised explosive device Sunday in eastern Afghanistan, a U.S. official said.
The official asked to
remain nameless because he was not authorized to speak about the
incident publicly. Earlier in the day, the International Security
Assistance Force issued a press release announcing the deaths without
offering more details, including the nationalities of the slain troops.
A total of eight
international troops were killed over the weekend, according to ISAF,
which was first established by the U.N. Security Council in 2001 to
secure Kabul and taken over by NATO two years later.
And this, also from CNN:
A shot rings out, but the burqa-clad woman sitting on the rocky ground does not respond.
The man pointing a rifle at her from a few feet away lets loose another round, but still there is no reaction.
He fires a third shot, and finally the woman slumps backwards.
But the man fires another shot.
And another. And another.
Nine shots in all.
Afghanistan is not a major ally. All Afghanistan is a country that is corrupt, filled with a bunch of Muslims who live in the dark ages, who hate women, gays and would rather use donkeys instead of cars. The only reason we should be in Afghanistan is to prevent the terrorists from regrouping and attacking the rest of the world. That's it. They are not a major ally like Germany, United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and other countries that are somewhat civilized.
So, to Hillary Clinton, you just equated Afghanistan with actual allies of the United States, which is just pathetic.
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