Was it?
We, the unheard citizenry of this land of the free and the brave, are distressed, Mr. Karzai, to learn that our President has been scheming to position our forces there for another TEN years and without Congressional authorization--not that what this Congress thinks and does makes any sense either.
Karzai is now bargaining with the US by saying he supports the agreement, but wants to wait to implement it until after the Afghan elections. Even though his leaders council or loya jirga of 2500 "notables," once considered leaders, back the new agreement with the US, fearing Washington and its money may leave them in the lurch, the way they did in Iraq, Karzai has overruled them for the moment, pissing off just about everyone.
A cagey Karzai is ventilating at the US for dramatic effect, calculating that he can squeeze out more concessions even as the press was taking it all literally.
Noted a perplexed New York Times: "Even Mr. Karzai's allies were at a loss to explain what he hoped to gain from the perplexing series of events over what was s expected to be a straight-forward deal."
Straight forward to whom, certainly not the public? An impatient US government that cares little about what the public thinks, here or in Afghanistan, is threatening, pushing and prodding to impose the deal. The more they insist on it, the less Karzai likes it.
President Karzai, please don't take this too personally, but I have been following you and your "evolving positions," even back to the days when you liked and backed the Taliban, and know that you have also always had problems with the US that you say "don't trust you and you don't trust them."
Why should you?
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