{"id":5158,"date":"2011-06-20T03:00:42","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5158"},"modified":"2011-06-20T03:00:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T10:00:42","slug":"eikenberry-blasts-karzai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/20\/eikenberry-blasts-karzai\/","title":{"rendered":"Eikenberry Blasts Karzai"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Karl Eikenberry prepares to leave Afghanistan, he indirectly slammed Hamid Karzai, and in the process pointed out why we need to leave, unintentionally I think.  Of course, Karzai was the Unocal (now part of Chevron) employee that Bush and the Republicans installed as their puppet President, and he would never have associated with them, or been accepted by them, were he not corrupt to the core.  Karzai is as bad as, if not worse than, the Taliban.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"20Eikenberry\"The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, in unusually blunt and personal comments Sunday, responded sharply to President Hamid Karzai\u2019s escalating denunciations of American and NATO forces and aid efforts in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

After an upbeat speech about Afghanistan\u2019s future prospects to university students in the Western city of Herat<\/a>, Ambassador Karl W. Eikenberry added remarks that he said were \u201cspoken from my heart.\u201d He complained bitterly about American forces being \u201ccompared to occupiers\u201d and being \u201ctold that they are only here to advance their own interests,\u201d suggesting such comments could lead the United States to give up on Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although he did not mention Karzai by name, Eikenberry was referring almost verbatim to harsh criticisms the Afghan president voiced Saturday and has expressed on previous occasions. \u201cI must tell you that I find occasional comments from some of your leaders hurtful and inappropriate,\u201d Eikenberry said.<\/p>\n

The ambassador\u2019s remarks came as he prepares to leave Afghanistan at the end of a grueling two-year posting\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The first problem is that, although US troops believed they were there to protect the Afghanis from Al Qaeda, Bush told them a Republican lie.  They really were there as occupiers, part of a RepubliCorp scheme to wrest control of Caspian natural gas from Russia, by routing it through Afghanistan to Karachi.  Under Obama, that is no longer the case, but such distinctions are lost on the population there.  They believe we are still occupiers, especially with Karzai making the claim to cover his own abuse of power.<\/font><\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s position, albeit unspoken, is that he does not want to give Republicans the opportunity to say that he gave Afghanistan to the terrorists.  Nevertheless, Bush and the Republicans lost that war before Obama took office.  The lives of our troops and the budget-busting cost of that war are too high a price to pay for saving face.  The time for withdrawal, as quickly as is logistically feasible, is now.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Karl Eikenberry prepares to leave Afghanistan, he indirectly slammed Hamid Karzai, and in the process pointed out why we need to leave, unintentionally I think.  Of course, Karzai was the Unocal (now part of Chevron) employee that Bush and the Republicans installed as their puppet President, and he would never have associated with them, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}