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Posted on 10/23/2011 6:59:26 PM PDT by tobyhill
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said if the United States and Pakistan ever went to war, his country would back Islamabad, drawing a sharp rebuke Sunday from Afghan lawmakers who claimed the country's top officials were adopting hypocritical positions.
The scenario is exceedingly unlikely and appears to be less a serious statement of policy than an Afghan overture to Pakistan, just days after Karzai and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Islamabad must do more to crack down on militants using its territory as a staging ground for attacks on Afghanistan.
"If fighting starts between Pakistan and the U.S., we are beside Pakistan," Karzai said is an interview with private Pakistani television station GEO that aired Saturday. "If Pakistan is attacked and the people of Pakistan need Afghanistan's help, Afghanistan will be there with you."
He said that Kabul would not allow any nation, including the U.S., to dictate its policies. Both Washington and Kabul have repeatedly said Pakistan is providing sanctuary to militant groups launching attacks in Afghanistan.
The comments set off a firestorm of criticism in the country. Afghan lawmakers argued they were particularly hypocritical coming just weeks after the assassination of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani by a suicide bomber.
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when NATO leaves Karzai must know he’s toast ,so which country is he going to hide in this time with all his bags of money
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And the hits just keep coming out of the Middle East...
Just nuke the place, along with Iraq and Iran, when we leave with ALL our people: military, civilian, contractors.
Eff muzzie nations-—all of them!
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Remember the good old days when our Allies at least pretended to like us?
I remember those days. Those were the days when they FEARED us, and that is the way it should be.
Karzai just voiced the undisputable fact: 99.9% of his country are Muslims and will support another Muslim state if it is attacked by The Great Satan.
He could say that "we will support the USA" but then the royal "we" would be limited to him and a dozen of his advisors. It's not something he can choose and make it happen.
Well, O-Douche-Bag said when the SHTF, he will stand(bend over)with his Butt-Muzzies.
You’re really winning those hearts and minds there, 0bungles.
Syria, of course.
Yawn...
Anyone got the GPS coordinates for Kabul? Load ‘em up.
Koranimals backing koranimals.
Move along, Kafirs....nothing surprising here.
Karzai is nuts.
He had his moment, in 2001-2, when due to all the differences between all the Afghan factions he was felt by a majority of the factions to be less threatening than other possible choices and thus he was able to obtain western support to take the lead to begin the “democratic” process.
Karzai should have then become a one-term President.
Instead, he has become drunk on the centralized power that was installed in his office, used it corruptly, neutered the legislative process in many areas of governance, and has no understanding of how to play international politics in favor of his nations’ interest.
His responses and outcries at various points occur because he is floundering, with no clear approach to situations; he is confused between what is his own personal interest (his power) and what is in the interest of Afghanistan (Afghan sovereign interests).
My fear is that someone in Afghanistan is going to knock him off, and that we might get blamed as a party to it because of the nutty things he has said.
We should hope a democratic movement against Karzai would get strong enough to remove him democratically.
Karzai is riding a tiger. If he leaves the office he will be hanged on the nearest lamppost. What we see here is the new Gaddafi in the making.
We should hope a democratic movement against Karzai would get strong enough to remove him democratically.
Afghan democracy is of Mao style: "Power comes from the barrel of the gun." And why not? An insurrection is much easier to arrange than a popular, peaceful revolt. All you need is money to pay soldiers.
Also to remove someone from the office democratically that someone must adhere (willingly or not) to democratic rules. For example, he must not monkey with elections; he must quit if he loses; he must not stay in the office longer than the Constitution allows; and so on. Considering that Karzai's life is at stake, loss of the office means loss of his life (and his way of life too.) Perhaps he can escape Afghanistan and live somewhere, like in the USA, on money that he stole from the US aid. But he knows what the word "assassin" means, and he saw just a month or two ago how they work. He will not be safe anywhere on Earth.
"I'm Karzai, Karzai and feelin' so lonely..."
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