The military has already begun doing that (investigating into buying off Taliban warlords like they did with the Sunni in Iraq) so is he just following orders?
Karzai has family members on the salary of the CIA, so even if he does we will get plenty of "intel".
It will all have been worth it the neoCons will say in their monastic warmonger mantra.
It is just that Karzai does diplomacy and politics about as well as he does elections.
He is a bad actor because he does not follow the script that has been written for him.
He even invited the president of Iran over for a visit where they both bad mouthed the U.S. in public.
But aren't we supposed to be there protecting him from
Not too long ago when the Bush II man Gates came over, Karzai said U.S. troops would have to be there for 30 years.
Karzai has been acting up as this blog has indicated in these past posts.
Don't you just wonder if the
I can't wait to hear the final version of the gloss over speech telling us what good news this is because yada yada blah blah yada yada.
Just bring the economy home stupid.
Afghanistan history repeats itself (once again), first as tragedy, then as farce. Or as Yogi said, it's deja vu all over again. Not hard to figure out why we're in the descent phase of our superpowerdom , is it?
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