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Please excuse this OT diversion, but your comment about Hamid Karzai piqued my curiosity. If you really have met him (and if I’m not missing a subtle joke on your part... /g), does he, in your opinion, deserve the bad press and criticism he’s getting.

I’ve posted in previous discussions about seeing a Military Channel program in early 2002 showing Karzai fighting alongside our SpecOps guys and providing invaluable liaison and intelligence services as they were rooting al Quaida and the Taliban out of Afghanistan in the wake of 9-11.

My impression has always been he’s getting a bum rap and has been set up as a fall guy by our side. Any opinions?

Karzai has a lot of relatives around here. My kids went to school with his nephew and other relatives. He used to walk around the neighborhood regularly on his visits down from Baltimore where he had a successful restaurant.

You can't help meeting a guy like that.

Yes, he gets an unfairly bad press ~ that's due to the fact he's been killing commies since the beginning of time. You can't expect the fruitcakes at the WashPost or NYT or their friends to deal fairly with the man.