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By Latest White House Visit, Hamid Karzai Corruption Rewarded
Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, was everybody’s darling in Washington on Tuesday. Everyone 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 was thinking about canceling Hamid Karzai’s scheduled meeting with President Obama on Wednesday. At the very same time, there are more and more US troops being killed in Hamid Karzai’s name.
Hamid Karzai and the election
The Hamid Karzai election marked when the administration’s displeasure with Hamid Karzai’s corruption became public. It was noted in 2009 that there was fraud involved in Hamid Karzai’s election to a second term as president of Afghanistan. Karzai blamed the west for the widespread fraud in the vote. He publicly criticized the western governments propping him up and got cozy with fellow puppet Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, while wearing his Karzai hat. Meanwhile, the U.S. ends up spending 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
Although Hamid Karzai may be puppet for the US, America may have lost their grip on him recently. On Tuesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton greeted Karzai very warmly in a reception at the State Department. The Obama administration will have to deal with Karzai for at least four more years. After the U.S. pressured Karzai into a do-over election, the opposition withdrew. The Obama administration is now finding themselves locked into a relationship. America’s plans in Afghanistan depend on a corrupt leader who despises his handlers. Karzai, being Karzai, is exploiting the situation to get whatever he can while the getting is good.
The hat of Hamid Karzai
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 theatre being staged this week for Karzai is intended to calm his anxiety and feed his ego. The Obama administration has set the ambitious goal of pulling out U.S. troops by July 2011. If the U.S. achieves that very specific 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. A major U.S. military effort is under way to drive the Taliban out of Kandahar province by the end of the year. Speaking of Hamid Karzai as a 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.”
In mentioning exports, Galbraith was talking about opium. Ahmad Wali was suspected of trading opium in one of the world’s poorest countries. The Karzai brothers deny this, of course, and the Obama administration hasn’t yet gathered the evidence sufficient for a criminal indictment.
What a guy- Hamid Karzai
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 will be at the White House that he now has faith in the Afghan president’s determination to succeed. Last November, Eikenberry told the Obama administration, in leaked classified cables obtained by the New York Times, that Karzai “is not an adequate strategic partner” and “continues to shun responsibility for any sovereign burden”.
Hamid Karzai and in deep
Eikenberry knew exactly what he was talking about when he criticized Karzai. He’s a retired Army lieutenant general who served as the top American commander in Afghanistan in 2002-03. In the classified cables, he warned that a major military commitment to Afghanistan would result in “astronomical costs” — tens of billions of dollars — and would only deepen the dependence of the Afghan government on the United States. A lot of that has come true thus far.
Sources for the article
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
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