Comments on: Karzai called Erratic, even Druggie; In fact, he is posing as liberator in shadow of Empire http://www.juancole.com/2010/04/karzai-called-erratic-even-druggie-in.html Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:17:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Don Thieme http://www.juancole.com/2010/04/karzai-called-erratic-even-druggie-in.html#comment-2874 Don Thieme Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:47:41 +0000 http://www.juancole.com/?p=5070#comment-2874 Who is the loose cannon, Hamed Karzai or Peter Galbraith? Who is the loose cannon, Hamed Karzai or Peter Galbraith?

]]> By: Bill http://www.juancole.com/2010/04/karzai-called-erratic-even-druggie-in.html#comment-2872 Bill Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:56:26 +0000 http://www.juancole.com/?p=5070#comment-2872 Prof. Cole - Your first paragraph seemed a bit far fetched. I would be most interested to know your reaction to Amb. Bhadrakumar's article on the same subject, on-line at Asia times:<br /><br />The alienation of Hamid Karzai<br />By M K Bhadrakumar <br /><br />It must have been the first time in the history of the United States that an incumbent president had to undertake a 26-hour plane journey abroad with repeated mid-air refueling to meet a foreign leader - all for a 30-minute pow-wow. <br /><br />The staggering message that came out of US President Barack Obama's hurried mission to the presidential palace in Kabul to meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai last Sunday afternoon is that his own AfPak diplomats have let him down badly. [cont'd]<br /><br />http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LD02Df02.html Prof. Cole – Your first paragraph seemed a bit far fetched. I would be most interested to know your reaction to Amb. Bhadrakumar's article on the same subject, on-line at Asia times:

The alienation of Hamid Karzai
By M K Bhadrakumar

It must have been the first time in the history of the United States that an incumbent president had to undertake a 26-hour plane journey abroad with repeated mid-air refueling to meet a foreign leader – all for a 30-minute pow-wow.

The staggering message that came out of US President Barack Obama's hurried mission to the presidential palace in Kabul to meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai last Sunday afternoon is that his own AfPak diplomats have let him down badly. [cont'd]

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LD02Df02.html

]]> By: -bwg http://www.juancole.com/2010/04/karzai-called-erratic-even-druggie-in.html#comment-2869 -bwg Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:17:04 +0000 http://www.juancole.com/?p=5070#comment-2869 Mark Hosenball at Newsweek writes that in an email exchange, Galbraith wrote that he meant hash, not opium or heroin: http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2010/04/07/u-s-officials-can-t-confirm-former-envoy-s-karzai-drug-allegation.aspx Mark Hosenball at Newsweek writes that in an email exchange, Galbraith wrote that he meant hash, not opium or heroin: link to blog.newsweek.com

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.juancole.com/2010/04/karzai-called-erratic-even-druggie-in.html#comment-2868 Anonymous Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:18:50 +0000 http://www.juancole.com/?p=5070#comment-2868 Remember the final photo of Diem sitting behind his desk with the perfect, round, CIA bullet hole in the center of his forehead?<br /><br />REB Remember the final photo of Diem sitting behind his desk with the perfect, round, CIA bullet hole in the center of his forehead?

REB

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.juancole.com/2010/04/karzai-called-erratic-even-druggie-in.html#comment-2867 Anonymous Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:59:08 +0000 http://www.juancole.com/?p=5070#comment-2867 So, we are determined to undermine the President of Afghanistan, shades of Vietnam, such is imperialism that learns no lessons and knows no limits. Afghanistan is not an American colony, though we wish to treat it as such when not helping to destroy it. So, we are determined to undermine the President of Afghanistan, shades of Vietnam, such is imperialism that learns no lessons and knows no limits. Afghanistan is not an American colony, though we wish to treat it as such when not helping to destroy it.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.juancole.com/2010/04/karzai-called-erratic-even-druggie-in.html#comment-2866 Anonymous Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:21:27 +0000 http://www.juancole.com/?p=5070#comment-2866 Galbraith didn't specifically mention heroin, and he could have just as easily been referring to hashish. I have no problem with marijuana usage, but certainly if one were to use it while "on the clock" at one's job, it could lead to emotional outbursts. <br /><br />And to empty pantries. Galbraith didn't specifically mention heroin, and he could have just as easily been referring to hashish. I have no problem with marijuana usage, but certainly if one were to use it while "on the clock" at one's job, it could lead to emotional outbursts.

And to empty pantries.

]]> By: James-Speaks http://www.juancole.com/2010/04/karzai-called-erratic-even-druggie-in.html#comment-2863 James-Speaks Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:01:00 +0000 http://www.juancole.com/?p=5070#comment-2863 The man is a fashion plate. The man is a fashion plate.

]]> By: Peter Attwood http://www.juancole.com/2010/04/karzai-called-erratic-even-druggie-in.html#comment-2862 Peter Attwood Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:51:16 +0000 http://www.juancole.com/?p=5070#comment-2862 The "costly errors of judgment" would not occur in a country whose inhabitants are considered fully human by the imperial overlords. The steady, wanton slaughter of Afghan and Iraqi untermenschen is not a series of mistakes. It's the ineveitable outcome of an arrogant empire electing itself to invade, bomb, and kill wherever it pleases because, being so superior to the rest of the human race, it is entitled and duty-bound to enlighten them with depleted uranium and Hellfire missiles.<br /><br />After all, we govern ourselves so well, with so much justice and uprightness, that the rest of the world just can't do without our way of doing things. <br /><br />I see these pictures and hear the insolence and callousness of these masters of the universe blaming others for the kids they shoot up like they're icons in a video game, and I wonder how long must the world's people endure to be terrorized by this monstrous empire. The "costly errors of judgment" would not occur in a country whose inhabitants are considered fully human by the imperial overlords. The steady, wanton slaughter of Afghan and Iraqi untermenschen is not a series of mistakes. It's the ineveitable outcome of an arrogant empire electing itself to invade, bomb, and kill wherever it pleases because, being so superior to the rest of the human race, it is entitled and duty-bound to enlighten them with depleted uranium and Hellfire missiles.

After all, we govern ourselves so well, with so much justice and uprightness, that the rest of the world just can't do without our way of doing things.

I see these pictures and hear the insolence and callousness of these masters of the universe blaming others for the kids they shoot up like they're icons in a video game, and I wonder how long must the world's people endure to be terrorized by this monstrous empire.

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