Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Karzai of the Afghans getting a little paranoid
When you have a job where people are dedicated to killing you, it has to be difficult to know who you can trust. And after awhile, the group will probably get smaller and smaller. And like Karzai of the Afghans, you end up paranoid even though people really are trying to kill you.
President Hamid Karzai has frequently lashed out at the U.S. military for causing civilian casualties in its raids. But behind the scenes, he has been building a far broader case against the Americans, suggesting that they may have aided or conducted shadowy insurgent-style attacks to undermine his government, according to senior Afghan officials.It does need to be repeated that a healthy dose of paranoia is vital to survival when one rules Afghanistan. The question is, how much is healthy?
Karzai has formalized his suspicions with a list of dozens of attacks that he believes the U.S. government may have been involved in, according to one palace official. The list even includes the recent bomb and gun assault on a Lebanese restaurant in Kabul, one of the bloodiest acts targeting the international community in Afghanistan, the official said. The attack, which left 21 people dead, including three Americans, was almost universally attributed to the Taliban.
But Karzai believes it was one of many incidents that may have been planned by Americans to weaken him and foment instability in Afghanistan, according to the senior palace official, who is sympathetic to the president’s view and spoke on the condition of anonymity. He acknowledged that his government had no concrete evidence of U.S. involvement and that the American role had not been formally confirmed.
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