U.S. resetting its relationship with Karzai

Washington Post by Rajiv Chandrasekaran | Nov. 20, 2009 (News Report)

When a team of senior U.S. officials led by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton entered the presidential palace in Kabul on Wednesday for a dinner meeting, they had little indication of what Afghan President Hamid Karzai planned to discuss, or whether questions about corruption and governance... Full Story »

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Subjects: World, U.S.
Topics: Afghanistan, Foreign Policy
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Nov 19, 2009 - 9:48 PM PST
Reviewed by: Kaizar Campwala (review), James Canning (review)
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Nov 20, 2009 - 7:17 AM PST
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 by Kaizar Campwala - Nov. 20, 2009
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 by James Canning - Dec. 20, 2009

A fascinating aspect of this article is its total failure to mention the attitude toward Karzai taken by the UK, Germany and other countries, including Iran, that are involved in Afghanistan and trying to keep the Taliban at bay.

The US-centric, inside-the-Beltway approach to assessing American foreign policy, has a navel-gazing quality. It helps to explain why failure is so frequent.

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