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| Hamid Karzai - Caricature (Photo credit: DonkeyHotey) |
From Denny: How many times does this President need for Afghanistan's Karzai to stick his finger in Obama's eye before he finally slaps back? "President" Karzai was supposed to sign the security pact with the United States, then President Obama gave him a Tick Tock delay to sign it by the end of December. Karzai is still negotiating for more and more and as outrageous as he can, claiming he will not sign until his conditions are met - not signing until maybe April 2014. Karzai arrogantly dangles this possibility in front of Obama's nose like a gold-plated carrot.
So, President Obama sends as his envoy National Security Adviser Susan Rice to talk some sense into Karzai. Did Karzai listen? Of course not; he was as odious as ever. Fortunately, Rice is tough enough to hold her own and I'm sure she gave Karzai an earful before she left steaming mad. While she was at it here's hoping she threw a few elbows for good measure. But then why would Obama send a woman to be so abused by a guy whose culture does not respect women? Afghans treat women worse than starving feral dogs. I guess Rice can count herself lucky she escaped without her nose and ears cut off by local crazies.
Which brings me to just what is Hamid Karzai? Well, he's the puppet government first installed by President Bush 43 in December 2001. Karzai does not control the country of Afghanistan. He has a somewhat tenuous hold upon the capital city and that's it. His brother was a drug lord while Karzai played at being President, giving a more respectably appearing, though deceptive, veneer to the international community. At best Afghanistan is a smoke and mirrors government masquerading as legitimate.
Next in the story line was that Karzai's drug lord brother was killed by a rival faction. It fell upon Karzai to take over the day-to-day dealings of the drug lord business while play acting at international politics. In the past year or so, the various drug lords have allied themselves with assorted Taliban factions in order to preserve their ruthless empires. The Taliban knows how weak Karzai is and are actively seeking to topple him, installing themselves in the Afghan government as yet one more victory for conservative and oppressive jihadist Islam. Soon enough Karzai will be killed off just like his brother. The Taliban were not that successful at terrorizing the West, especially the United States, so they turned to what is easier: weak Islamic governments ripe for takeover...
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So, what is President Obama reduced to negotiating with here? Basically, this President is trying to talk sense to a drug lord playing at politics while a member of the Taliban. Is this what we really want our American troops to die for? Why die for terrorists who are attempting to use America for security shields against rival Taliban and drug lord factions?
You know the Taliban Karzai is tied to instructed him to see how much weaponry and goodies he could weasel out of the United States for free since Obama is feeling guilty about the past when the Afghans were abandoned. Let me share a thought with Mr. President: Today's Afghanistan is not the same one of decades ago. Much has changed - and for the worse. It's one of the most corrupt countries in the world.
Do we really need the Taliban to benefit from amassing paid for American weaponry and Russian aircraft so they can easily terrorize the entire country worse than they are already doing? We can delay how violent they can be if we do not make it easier for them by giving arms away like candy.
Remember Syria's current two-year civil war? A lot of us told this President not to arm those Syrian rebels as they were in the process of getting taken over by the Taliban and other terrorist groups. Obama was never keen on giving them weapons as he too saw how it could easily become what it is today: those American arms that Congress pushed Obama to give to Syria are now in terrorist not rebel hands. Let's not make the same stupid mistake here in Afghanistan: listening to Congress.
Too many brave soldiers died today in a war that never seems to end: 12 years of active war and now another 10 years and more as a "security force"? Come on; really? All this grandstanding of staying in Afghanistan is really about massive profits for defense contractors too addicted to the government drug drip with Senators like McCain bought and paid for.
Pull the plug NOW, Mr. President, if you want to see any kind of positive legacy for your time in office. It would also be nice, if during this holiday season, this President would quit considering just himself and, instead, think of all the soldiers who could have died over the next decade or more - and this President chose to save them.
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Check out these Daily Show clips of just how crazy both American and international governments truly are in how they approach problem-solving serious issues that can affect the world for generations:
And better yet, check out Lewis Black on just how lame future technology will be, and, oh, yeah, the future of robotic prostitution because, in the end, most defense contractors are the governments' prostitutes:
Lewis Black feels let down by a future that several doctors told him he would not live to see. (03:56)
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