Karzai compelled to join the Taliban

[Karalysia]

Here's an article about Karrzais mental instabality and possible drug use

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36196464/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/

We got a winner here

 

[RebelYeller]

So Hooker was rumored to have a drug problem too. Karzai does opium, Hooker does whiskey. Nothing new.

 

[Phrossack]

Doesn't make it right.

 

[Formaldehyde]

It doesn't make it true either. But it does make it hypocritical if it is a known problem that isn't coming out until now...

 

[RebelYeller]

Doesn't make it right.

Of course its not right that he's acting like a yankee but what can we do? Send him to drug rehab? We can't doing anyting to him. It would be seen as symbol of us messing with all Afghans. All we can do is wait until he does something like defect and as I and some others pointed out he won't as he would have nothing to gain and much to lose by doing so.

 

[RedRalph]

Still think this doesn't matter, Mobboss?

 

[Elrohir]

Honestly, I'm very much starting to think that either Karzai needs to go, or we do. You can't win a war against terrorist groups in a country when the country's president is legitimizing them by threatening to join them and fight your troops. If the Afghani parliament won't oust him, then we should either dissolve the Afghan government and start over, or just leave -- let them play their games, and see how it goes. I'm not sure why we should risk the lives of our soldiers to protect a drugged up, ungrateful, wannabe dictator.

 

[RedRalph]

Honestly, I'm very much starting to think that either Karzai needs to go, or we do. You can't win a war against terrorist groups in a country when the country's president is legitimizing them by threatening to join them and fight your troops. If the Afghani parliament won't oust him, then we should either dissolve the Afghan government and start over, or just leave -- let them play their games, and see how it goes. I'm not sure why we should risk the lives of our soldiers to protect a drugged up, ungrateful, wannabe dictator.

That would be the rational reaction from an American to this news, IMO.

 

[Little Raven]

It's not quite that simple. We've invested a LOT into Afghanistan. Billions upon billions, not to mention hundreds of lives. Leaving would be painful.

Karzai is...well...underwhelming, but so far he's the best puppet we've found - which says something about local puppet supply. And you expect your puppets to occasionally give public push-back, as a way of building local legitimacy. So maybe Karzai is simply playing a brilliant double-game here, forcefully defying the US in public while working behind the scenes to bring stability to the region and shore up American interests.

Ok, not likely. But he's still the best we have for now. The day he isn't, I expect his security detail will make a critical error resulting in him coming down with high-velocity lead poisoning.

 

[Cutlass]

This sums it up pretty well....