[2001convSVT]

President Hamid Karzai, knows that after the Americans leave he is a dead man, it is in his personal interest to have a U.S. ground presence in Afghanistan. I just hope we don't end up with a Shah of Afghanistan.

[Justa]

You think he’ll stay behind? Ha. He’ll leave with the coalition. You know the drill, talk C about their benefactor, then quitely slip out to live ‘in exile’ in France, Sweden, Holland, etc. with billions they feathered in Swiss bank accounts.

By not staying and fighting he gets an agreement with the Taliban to not extradite him. But they’ll still execute him for cooperating with the coalition. When the money runs out the local support dies -literally.