Sunday, October 23, 2011
Is Karzai of the Afghans worth the effort
In lives and money needed to prop him up? Juan Cole looks at KoA's latest outburst and concludes that he is not.
One of the big problems with the ‘counter-insurgency’ program of Gen. David Petraeus in Afghanistan is that counter-insurgency requires a reliable local partner. But the US only has Hamid Karzai, who stole his last presidential election and who micro-manages Kabul while letting much of the country go to hell, and he has now pledged a defense pact with Pakistan against his US ally.About as reliable an ally as Israel and Saudi Arabia. We really need a realistic assessment of our presence in that area.
It makes a person angry about the idea of US troops losing their lives to defend and stand up the Karzai government.
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