Posted on 04/10/2010 10:01:42 PM PDT by indianrightwinger
Obama moves to reaffirm ties with Karzai
By Karen DeYoung and Joshua Partlow Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, April 9, 2010; 8:25
President Obama moved this week to close a growing breach with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, sending him a letter reaffirming their close ties and reiterating an invitation to visit Washington next month.
The letter, delivered Thursday by U.S. Ambassador Karl W. Eikenberry in Kabul, thanked Karzai for organizing Obama's visit there late last month on short notice and "recommitted" the United States "to the success of our operation and our partnership," national security adviser James L. Jones said.
Jones, who spoke to reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday morning as Obama returned from signing a U.S.-Russia nuclear deal in Prague, dismissed persistent reports that Karzai is unstable and unwilling or unable to end the official corruption that the United States believes is undercutting its efforts in Afghanistan.
Jones said Karzai "did not intend to create any damage to the relationship" with speeches, made after Obama's visit, in which he charged that Western "interference" in Afghanistan risked turning the Taliban into a legitimate resistance movement that he might join himself.
Afghan officials have expressed concern over the breach with Washington and have taken pains this week to insist that Karzai did not intend to offend the United States with his remarks.
Shaida Mohammad Abdali, Afghanistan's deputy national security adviser, said in an interview that he felt Karzai's remarks had been misinterpreted. Instead of attacking the West, he said, Karzai was warning that a deteriorating security situation, and problems such as last year's elections, could damage both Afghan and U.S. interests.
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Will Karzai have to use the Netanyahou door or the paparazzi door?
If I were Karzia, I’d publicly humilate the Kenyan!
Obama has to learn that there are consequences for his dangerous, childish actions!
..............Karzai is unstable and unwilling or unable to end the official corruption ...................
How about you Zer0?
When will you be willing to acknowledge the corruption; the tainted lobbyists, the Chicago thugs, that surround your coronation???
Wow, when even the inept Karzai can play you like a cheap violin, you might as well hang yourself, Marxistboy.
Karzai has him by the Barries. Unless he fumbles it now 0bumble will never get the ball back.
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