WAR ON AFGHANISTAN; Karzai Reveals US Will Retain 9 Bases After 2014 Withdrawal, US Troops WILL NOT Fight Taliban But Guarantee Security

May 9, 2013 (AE) - Afghanistan is currently suffering from daily attacks and car bombings... so we're supposed to believe that the US troops are going to withdraw into their nine military bases, not engage the Taliban, and somehow "teach" the Afghan Army (ie, imperial army forced to fight their own people) to bring "security" to a country that all of NATO's joint forces cannot even control now after 12 years of war???

This is pure comedy, but with a massive and humorless price tag.

Or will the true function of the remaining NATO and US troops be to protect the ongoing mining operations (performed by China under US military protection) and to act as the "Opium Protection Police" for Britain's most profitable export product???

Of course the puppet Karzai will agree to anything since the continuous monthly $300K cash drops of US dollars to his office are much more enticing than getting shot in the face...

How anyone can read the following article and consider this to be a "US withdrawal plan" is beyond me...