US tells Karzai "
Sign Security Deal or we leave."
Expected Karzai response: "See ya!" This is more or less what the folks in Iraq did when the SoF agreement would not fly.
In other news,
Afghanistan wants to go back to stoning audlterers, which was apparently their law before all of these interfering foreigners showed up.
To thine own selves, be true.
I once heard a saying that seems to apply here: one cannot polish a turd. Another saying I once heard was that one cannot inflict democracy upon a nation at the point of a bayonet. It has to grow from the ground up.
Something like that.