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 Team Obama Handles Karzai With Kid GlovesPosted on May 13, 2010
Relations between the U.S. and Afghan administrations have been less than cozy in recent months, but President Obama’s crew, headed by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, attempted to warm things up this week by giving visiting President Hamid Karzai the royal treatment in Washington. —KA
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By Eugenio Costa, May 14, 2010 at 9:34 am Link to this comment
Karzai’s outfit is a reminder to Afghans that he was the chosen leader of the last King, Mohammed Zahir Shah.
Report thisBy Eugenio Costa, May 14, 2010 at 9:31 am Link to this comment
The US and NATO do not have enough troops in the area to occupy Afghanistan against a thoroughly hostile population.
Plus the place is a logistics nightmare, and no Afghani needs to learn that at West Point.
Maneuvering around Kandahar with 30,000 foreign troops in an area with millions of Afghans close by is not too smart.
There are ten different way they could be cut off.
Merely by the way, Alexander of Macedon founded the city—though there was a previous Persian settlement there if one recalls correctly.
Report thisBy Eugenio Costa, May 14, 2010 at 9:22 am Link to this comment
“Big show before they pop him.”
Steve E.
That’s what it looks like on the American side.
Check out the pictures of Karzai closely.
He is much cagier than Diem.
Okay, so there’s this peace jirga coming up, see.
Report thisBy squeaky jones, May 13, 2010 at 7:46 pm Link to this comment
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Obama says no to Marijuana; however, death and destruction wars, Obama says hell yes. Obama, the same old song and dance.
Report thisBy Steve E, May 13, 2010 at 5:10 pm Link to this comment
Big show before they pop him.
Report thisBy gerard, May 13, 2010 at 4:22 pm Link to this comment
It’s the cape and the cap, chaps. Get yourselves an outfit like that and you, too, can become capitalists, or at least captains of industry capable of capturing charms as charismatic as Karzai.
Report thisBy rollzone, May 13, 2010 at 3:50 pm Link to this comment
hello. the crew had to show off the resplendent crib that heroin dollars (the pharmaceutical lobby) buys, and provide escape awhile from the dead Muslims back in the home turf. get Hillary drunk. she likes to dance. break out that opium pipe. do the Karzai!
Report thisBy gerard, May 13, 2010 at 3:21 pm Link to this comment
How delightful that Kabul “now has its own American Chamber of Commerce.” That’s what I’ve been living for for years—and the lives of some thousands of American soldiers are so worth it! Every day something else to be thankful for!
Report thisBy amunaor, May 13, 2010 at 12:39 pm Link to this comment
I think they sent, bullet dodging, Hillary up to Karzai’s sleeping quarters, and whilst Karzai slept, she placed the decapitated head of a horse on the pillow next to his.
“Just look at that pile of dead bastards over there” Growing larger my the moment!
WikiLeaks—Collateral Murder
http://wikileaks.org/
Peace, Best Wishes and Hope
Report thisBy samosamo, May 13, 2010 at 12:04 pm Link to this comment
Karzai must be one hell of a fuck boy for the u.s.a., or I wonder
Report thiswhat information he has on u.s.? Probably the only afghan who
profits by the presence of american troops on their soil.