Hamid Karzai, president of Afghanistan, was in Washington on Tuesday. Every person thought Hamid Karzai was a dirt bag last month because of his corruption. In April the Washington Post reported that the White House hinted it had considered canceling Hamid Karzai’s scheduled meeting with President Obama on Wednesday. At the very very same time, you will find more and a lot more US troops being killed in Hamid Karzai’s name.
Hamid Karzai and also the election
Marked by when Hamid Karzai’s corruption became public is the Hamid Karzai election. In 2009, it was discovered that fraud was involved in Hamid Karzai’s election to a second term as president. Karzai, who won, blamed the west for the widespread fraud in the vote. He publicly criticized the western government for propping him up, while wearing his Karzai hat, and got cozy with fellow puppet Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Meanwhile, the U.S. spends about $6.3 billion a month in an unsecured loan to Afghanistan, according to an October 2009 report from the Congressional Research Service.
Corruption of Hamid Karzai
Hamid Karzai may be a U.S. puppet, but recently The US has lost its grip on his strings. On Tuesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton greeted Karzai very warmly in a reception at the State Department. Like it or not, the Obama administration is stuck with Karzai for four more years. After Karzai was pressured by the US to a do over election, the opposition withdrew. The Obama administration finds itself locked in a co dependent relationship. America’s plans in Afghanistan depend on a corrupt leader who despises his handlers. Karzai is exploiting the situation to get whatever he can while the getting is good.
The Hamid Karzai hat
Hamid Karzai, after bad-mouthing the coalition of countries sacrificing to keep him in Karzai hats made from aborted lamb fetuses, now whines about being abandoned. The political theater for Karzai this week should calm his anxiety and feed his ego. By July 2011, Obama plans on pulling out all troops. If the U.S. achieves that goal, Karzai, who has survived three assassination attempts as Afghanistan’s president, is making it known that he will seek a new protector.
Brother of Hamid Karzai
Hamid Karzai’s half brother, Ahmad Wali Karzai, extends this corruption into Kandahar Province where he leads its Provisional Council. The US plans that by the end of the year the Taliban will be driven out of Kandahar province. Speaking of Hamid Karzai as a legitimate partner in such an effort, Peter Galbraith, a former U.N. envoy to Afghanistan told MSNBC’s “Daily Rundown” :
“He’s prone to tirades. He can be very emotional, act impulsively. In fact, some of the palace insiders say that he has a certain fondness for some of Afghanistan’s most profitable exports.”
Opium is what Galbraith was talking about. Ahmad Wali is suspected of getting filthy rich from the opium trade in one of the world’s poorest countries. The Obama administration doesn’t have much evidence yet and also the Karzai brothers deny this completely.
What a guy Hamid Karzai is
For his latest visit to Washington, Hamid Karzai was personally escorted on his flight from Kabul by none other than Lt. Gen. Karl W. Eikenberry, the ambassador to Afghanistan. The New York Times reports that Eikenberry plans to assure all the reporters that could be at the White House that he now has faith in the Afghan president’s determination to succeed. In leaked classified cables obtained by the New York Times last November, Eikenberry told the Obama administration that Karzai “is not an adequate strategic partner” and “continues to shun responsibility for any sovereign burden”.
In deep with Hamid Karzai
Eikenberry knew what he was talking about when he criticized Karzai. He served as the top American commander in Afghanistan in 2002-03 and is now retired. Within the classified cables, he warned that a major military commitment to Afghanistan would result in “astronomical costs” — which means tens of billions of dollars — and would deepen the dependence of the Afghan government on the United States. Many that has come to pass.
Article Sources
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/06/AR2010040602175.html
MSNBC’s “Daily Rundown”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34689185/
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/11/world/asia/11karzai.html?ref=us
