Karzai says he’d ‘choose the Taliban’ over US

[Razmear]

So much for winning the hearts and minds.....

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/karzai-choose-taliban/

Afghan President Hamid Karzai says would side with the Taliban if he had to do it all over again.

In late October, Gen. David H. Petraeus, US Ambassador Karl Eikenberry and other top officials were trying to convince Karzai to back down on an order banning all foreign private security contractors from Afghanistan. The Afghan president decided he had heard enough, according to a new report in The Washington Post.

"If I had to choose sides today, I'd choose the Taliban," Karzai seethed.

The "main enemies" of Afghanistan are the Taliban, the United States and the international community, according to Karzai.

[FrankRep]

Money can't buy us some love I guess. :p


2010: Iran Sends Bagsful of Cash to Karzai (http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/world-mainmenu-26/asia-mainmenu-33/4989-iran-sends-bagsful-of-cash-to-karzai)

Despite the fact that governments of Iran and Afghanistan are viewed as being on opposite sides of the fence in the War on Terror, Afghan President Hamid Karzai is reportedly receiving a steady stream of Iranian cash. By Michael Tennant

2010: The Karzai Family Fortune, Courtesy of U.S. Taxpayers (http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/foreign-policy/4794-the-karzai-family-fortune-courtesy-of-us-taxpayers)

“In recent years,” the New York Times’ James Risen reports, “dozens of Karzai family members and close allies have taken government jobs, pursued business interests or worked as contractors to the United States government, allowing them to shape policy or financially benefit from it.” “American officials,” Risen writes, “say the Karzais and a handful of other well-connected families have benefited from the billions of dollars that the United States has poured into the country since 2001. by Michael Tennant

2009: Karzai Offers Invitation to “Our Taliban Brothers” (http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/world-mainmenu-26/asia-mainmenu-33/2235-karzai-offers-invitation-to-our-taliban-brothers)

Delivering his acceptance speech at a November 3 press conference — the day after Afghanistan's Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) declared him the winner of the country's disputed election — President Hamid Karzai issued an appeal to “to bring peace to this soil” and said that Afghans should “ask our Taliban brothers and others to return and embrace their own land.”
by Warren Mass

[sailingaway]

So do we leave now?

I mean, if fish and guests stink after three days, as Plutarch says, imagine how an army smells after a decade.

[jmdrake]

Money can't buy us some love I guess. :p


2010: Iran Sends Bagsful of Cash to Karzai (http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/world-mainmenu-26/asia-mainmenu-33/4989-iran-sends-bagsful-of-cash-to-karzai)

Despite the fact that governments of Iran and Afghanistan are viewed as being on opposite sides of the fence in the War on Terror, Afghan President Hamid Karzai is reportedly receiving a steady stream of Iranian cash. By Michael Tennant

2010: The Karzai Family Fortune, Courtesy of U.S. Taxpayers (http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/foreign-policy/4794-the-karzai-family-fortune-courtesy-of-us-taxpayers)

“In recent years,” the New York Times’ James Risen reports, “dozens of Karzai family members and close allies have taken government jobs, pursued business interests or worked as contractors to the United States government, allowing them to shape policy or financially benefit from it.” “American officials,” Risen writes, “say the Karzais and a handful of other well-connected families have benefited from the billions of dollars that the United States has poured into the country since 2001. by Michael Tennant

2009: Karzai Offers Invitation to “Our Taliban Brothers” (http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/world-mainmenu-26/asia-mainmenu-33/2235-karzai-offers-invitation-to-our-taliban-brothers)

Delivering his acceptance speech at a November 3 press conference — the day after Afghanistan's Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) declared him the winner of the country's disputed election — President Hamid Karzai issued an appeal to “to bring peace to this soil” and said that Afghans should “ask our Taliban brothers and others to return and embrace their own land.”
by Warren Mass

Thanks for the links. I disagree with the contention that Iran and Afghanistan were on "opposite sides" on the war on terror. Iran sent troops into Afghanistan in 2003 to help America to overthrow the Taliban.

[Pericles]

We should give him his wish, and come home. Don't give a rat's donkey about what happens there other than to keep any attack on the US from happening.

[HOLLYWOOD]

Good Ole Dubya Bush and his Daddy Cheney with their 'AXIS of EVIL'

I think we know who has screwed this one up in the world, then again, we know the omerta Foreign Policy controlled by special interest.

[libertybrewcity]

his life was probably threatened. Taliban is very strong in Afghanistan because the Pashtun Region extends into it. Taliban can easily take over because the people want "peace" and "control" and will take it if they can, even if it's the Taliban. Afghanis have also been influenced by the thousands of extreme conservative Saudi Missionaries that were sent in during the 80's and 90's. The Mujahedeen drove out the Soviets in the early 90's, and they will drive out the Americans in this coming decade, just as Americans would drive out foreign invaders on our own land.