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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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