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Me#1You#10
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LewWaters
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| Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:39 am Post subject: |
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Boy, ain't that the truth?
Wait, isn't Karzai the one they have been demonizing the last few years?
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Me#1You#10
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Just why "The One" opted for Jean Fraud's limelighting in this Afghanistan development (appearing to warrant direct intervention by SoS Clinton and her Dept. of State) has my mind working in overdrive. That being said, Liveshot hasn't missed an opportunistic beat.
I wonder what's up in this curious scenario...
| Quote: | Why John Kerry?
Jamie M. Fly
The Corner
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Despite its host of special envoys and czars, the Obama administration has, on occasion, seen the need to look outside for assistance in resolving major foreign-policy crises. The latest example is Afghanistan, where Sen. John Kerry reportedly played a key role in brokering yesterday's announcement by Afghan president Hamid Karzai that he would accept a runoff of Afghanistan’s president election, likely to be held on November 7.
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The New York Times reports that last week Secretary Clinton, knowing Senator Kerry was about to travel to Afghanistan, “dispatched” Richard Holbrooke, the administration’s special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, to Kerry’s home to ask for his assistance in convincing Karzai to accept election results showing that he had received less than 50% of the vote during the presidential election in August.
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The subtext here appears to be that Holbrooke, who reportedly engaged in several shouting matches with Karzai in recent months, has so undermined the U.S. relationship with Karzai that he had to be sidelined. Even if Holbrooke was deemed an unacceptable broker, why not have Secretary Clinton travel to the region to mediate?
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Clinton’s notable absence on Afghanistan policy has led many experts to express concerns that the caliber of the U.S. civilian team working on Afghanistan does not match that of the likes of Gen. David Petraeus, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, and other military leaders handling this issue.
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This is a fundamental problem that 20 hours of shuttle diplomacy by John Kerry isn't going to solve. U.S. strategy in Afghanistan doesn’t really benefit either from the shameless leaking by Kerry's staff, playing up his role in resolving the crisis. News accounts today were filled with accounts of his long walk with Karzai through the palace grounds amidst the rose bushes hours before Karzai’s press conference. Other reports noted that Kerry discussed with Karzai his own frustrating experience during the 2004 election when he lost Ohio.
It is unclear what Kerry is trying to achieve other than his own self aggrandizement, but David Ignatius hints in an online article on the Washington Post website that it may be more work for the Obama administration, "one wonders, after this stint of marathon diplomacy and hand-holding, how Kerry will find life back in the all-too-familiar Senate chamber."
It is worth remembering that the administration used Kerry at least once before in a similar role, also breathlessly reported by Ignatius at the time. In March, Kerry dined with Syrian president Bashar Assad in Damascus, with whom he has reportedly developed a relationship of “respect and friendship,” enabling him to “break a logjam” in U.S.-Syrian relations. Now, seven months later, the administration has little to show for its engagement with Syria. Hopefully Senator Kerry's efforts over the last several days to convince Hamid Karzai to agree to a runoff will yield more success than his time in Damascus in March.
— Jamie M. Fly is executive director of the Foreign Policy Initiative.
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| LewWaters wrote: | | Wait, isn't Karzai the one they have been demonizing the last few years? |
Maybe that's part of the picture Lew. Obama hasn't yet decided whether to pull the U.S. rug from under the feet of Thieu (oops, I mean Karzai) and the fledgling democracy he represents. Who better to get that message across than the rug-puller par excellence himself.
Perhaps, should Obama opt for the Vietnam II endgame, Clinton's skirts won't look quite so soiled and duplicitous. As for Kerry, who could tell the difference. |
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TEWSPilot
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| Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Wasn't Kerry FOR winning in Afghanistan before he was AGAINST winning that one, too? Every war is "Groundhog Day" for Jean Fraud. |
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Schadow
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 3:10 am Post subject: |
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| Me#1You#10 wrote: | | (From Fly's piece)... why not have Secretary Clinton travel to the region to mediate? |
Too many snipers. 
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Me#1You#10
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| Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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Hmmmm...now let's see here...
- Karzai concedes to a runoff election ostensibly via some form of "persuasion" applied by State Department proxy-flunky Jean Fraud.
- Jean Fraud opines that some form of legitimate Afghani government is a pre-condition for requested U.S. troop increases.
- Several days later, the New York Times (where else?) reports (via current and former UNNAMED American officials) that Karzai's brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, a "suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years".
- Jean Fraud, declaring himself to be rather inexplicably "in the dark", expresses fear that "he and other members of Congress have been misled about Ahmed Karzai's role in drug trafficking", in essence laying the foundation for the de-legitimization of a would-be Karzai government.
Karzai...watch your back. |
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