Posted on 02/08/2009 3:58:59 PM PST by FocusNexus
President Barack Obama has said he regards Karzai as unreliable and ineffective. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said he presided over a "narco-state." The Americans making Afghan policy, worried that the war is being lost, are vowing to bypass Karzai and deal directly with the governors in the countryside.
At home, Karzai faces a widening insurgency and a population that blames him for the lack of economic progress and the corrupt officials that seem to stand at every doorway of his government. His face, which once adorned the walls of tea shops across the country, is today much less visible.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Obama is much worse than Carter -- he is undermining Karzai and setting the stage for a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, with resurgent Al Queda.
As someone said, Obama is either dangerously naive or complicit. Pick one.
Karzi reside over a Narco State ?
Obama should embrace him. Karzi doesn’t inhale. Clinton staffers should appreciate that.
I consider ZERO and the pants suit totally unreliable and unqualified. You don’t say things like this in public.
Never thought I would agree that ZERO is worse then Carter because I didn’t think that was possible. Also think the pantsuit is worse then Albright which is saying a lot. Even though I didn’t agree a lot with Albright she wasn’t as bad as the pantsuit who is clueless.
Complicit!
Translation: Karzai is not a leftist radical Muslim and cannot be trusted.
Obama soon to be impeached.Or the Afghanis will have him if the Mossad does not first.
I wouldn't want to be on ANY of his personal security details.......ever.
Seems a bit unilateralist to me. Oh well, I happen to agree with Obama in this instance, but I know he won’t do anything to back his insult of Karzai, so it’s a negative.
His brother is runs one of the biggest drug operations there and drugs dictate policy when agriculture was never "cultivated" properly after the war.
Farming WOULD have been better in the long run, but it would have taken more energy than simply reinstating the drug $ world.
Watch your back ...you start takin' THIS road, B.Hussein Obama...
hussein’s inexperience and plain dumb assed... dumber than dirt mind is going to get the entire world blown up.
LLS
Having a private assessment of a foreign leader and taking his strengths and weaknesses into account when formulating policy and plans is sensible and normal. Running arround insulting IN PUBLIC foreign leaders whose cooperation we NEED is INSANE and considering we are talking about the war on terror, it’s suicidal.
As I said, this only emboldens the already resurgent Taliban, to take back Afghanistan and what do you think that will mean for Al Qaeda and their attacks on us?!
I wonder who he has in mind to bargain with. This looks like a deliberate campaign to oust Karzai, very much like the Kennedy plan to get rid of Diem in South VietNam. It destabilized the central government and led to a world of trouble because we didn't have a realistic replacement up our sleeves.
I think Obama has some real hare-brained scheme in mind, which almost certanly will blow up in his idiot face and cost unnecessary loss of American life.
“Karzai as unreliable and ineffective. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said he presided over a “narco-state.”
Obamachev is preparing the ground to bail surrender Afghanistan to the Taliban. He halted the surge. He’ll use the lack of Nato commitment to pull out.
If I was Karzai I’d be sure I have a seat on the last plane out.
I’m guessing that Karzai hasn’t given either zero or billary the ‘donations’ they have come to expect.
“This looks like a deliberate campaign to oust Karzai, very much like the Kennedy plan to get rid of Diem in South VietNam”
And the way Carter helped oust the Shah of Iran, best friend of the US in the Middle East. That of course resulted in the return of the Ayatollah and the current radical Islamic regime in Iran, a danger to the entire world, with their quest for nuclear weapons, which they will achieve very soon, and they already demonstrated they havce the technology for long range missiles.
Jimmy Carter said the Shah of Iran was unreliable, so he brought in the mullahs to help stabilize Iran and cause worldwide terror.
Welcome back Carter. You are unreliable.
We need to get word to Karzai that President Dinky is considered unreliable.
Many people still mistakenly believe the Taliban were opposed to the drug trade due to the ban they placed on opium cultivation during their last year in power. However, even prior to capturing Kabul on Sept. 27, 1996, the Taliban made deals to allow opium cultivation and processing in return for political support and a cut of the profits.<.i
The entire piece The Taliban opium connection is well worth reading.
I wonder if this has anything to do with Russia offering to “help out” in Afghanistan?
You two, along with the author of this piece, the President of the United States and his Secretary of State apparently are wonderfully ignorant of the facts on the ground in Afghanistan. Rather then cling to notions of your own infallibility, the lot of you might want to actually learn some things about Afghanistan rather then mindlessly cling to the usual Do Nothing Isolationist dogma.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/02/afghanistan.poppy.farms/index.html
Not good when we have boots on the ground.
Look at Holbrooke’s latest statements....the Obama admin. is looking to exit!
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/09/europe/09munich.php
My interpretation.
“Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said he presided over a “narco-state.” “
Afghanistan is by definition a narco-state - IIRC the taliban made more inroads into this than anyone else in recent history.
*Huge* amounts of money and power (presumably including some nation-states or elements within the governments of some nations) behind the export, what result is one to expect?
Community Organizer Barack Obama is unreliable and ineffective. Productive Americans hope to bypass Obama and deal directly with the governors in the states.
The Community Organizer faces a widening disgust and a population that blames him for the lack of economic progress and the corrupt tax-evading officials that seem to stand at every doorway of his government ....
So does this mean the US specops folks who are protecting Karzai as we speak should stand down, and not lay their lives on the line for an “ineffectual” leader? Just what all the boys in uniform want to hear: dying for nothing.
Way out of his league...
EXCELLENT info. You are right. I must have spoken based on info from the past. Glad to hear changes have been made. Thanks for bringing the info to our attention.
Complicit.
The Americans making Afghan policy, worried that the war is being lost, are vowing to bypass Karzai and deal directly with the governors in the countryside. At home, Karzai faces a widening insurgency and a population that blames him for the lack of economic progress and the corrupt officials that seem to stand at every doorway of his government. His face, which once adorned the walls of tea shops across the country, is today much less visible.
I expect nothing but words from Obama, as I posted. What is your problem? This is a negative. I already posted this.
Nam Vat
Karzai isn’t unreliable, but Hamas loving Palestinians now cleared to live here are? What a frickin’ idoit!
Relax, I wasn’t criticizing you, merely expanding on the situation.
I am having a hard time relaxing since the ZERO took office, but I hear you loud and clear!
“I am having a hard time relaxing since the ZERO took office”
You and me both. He has already done more damage in the two weeks he’s been in office, than most presidents in their entire term. And he is just getting started.
Sorry for ruining your evening. ;)
The one bright spot is that most Republicans are sticking together against the socialist spending bill.
The Afghan administration thinks that the Obama administration is unrelibable.
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