He’s exactly right. Unless Afghan President Hamid Karzai fesses up to the degree of election corruption he used, and corruption before that, U.S. President Barack Obama should simply say “sayonara.”
Counterinsurgency to defend a government elected with as many as one-third tainted votes? That is how the Taliban got boosted to power in the first place.
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October 15, 2009
Friedman hits A-stan out of the park
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