So just like gun control in response to Newtown, Karzai throws the baby out with the bathwater. Guarantee this will result in unnecessary deaths when Afghan forces can?t call in for close air support. ?Our men in country were already extremely hampered with higher ups not authorizing enough ?close air support? .
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday that he will issue a decree banning Afghan security forces from asking international troops to carry out airstrikes under ?any circumstances.?
The announcement came amid anger over a joint Afghan-NATO operation this week that Afghan officials said killed 10 civilians, including women and children, in northeast Kunar province.
?I will issue a decree tomorrow that no Afghan security forces, in any circumstances, in any circumstances can ask for the foreigners? planes for carrying out operations on our homes and villages,? Karzai said in a speech at the Afghan National Military Academy in Kabul.
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