Tuesday, April 20, 2010

With friends like these in Kabul, who needs enemies?
Karzai is showing the international community his true colors


Kabul, Afghanistan—Hamid Karzai’s comments that he’ll join the Taliban were clearly designed to garner attention, any attention, and to distract from the sham elections his country just held. No one is really buying the I’ll just take my toys home temper-tantrum the Afghani president is spewing but it does point the elephant in Kabul—an administration that is double-dealing and playing both ends against the middle.

Afghanistan’s leaders are the most corrupt among the world over and attempts to even remotely disguise it are being cast aside. Figuring he’s got nothing to lose, Karzai doesn’t have many friends at this point, so why not go for broke?

The Afghan invasion was to root-out the Taliban and wayward Al Qaeda members but has since turned into a conflict without a clear goal and practically no exit strategy. This is not the fault of the US military or any of its allies; it is the dubious product of a citizenry and corrupt government that has no interest in a peaceful future.

President Obama, Congress, and military commanders have a challenge perhaps two-fold more difficult then those that were faced in 1974; we wish them all the best and hope for a victorious resolution.


-- Killswitch Politick



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