Hamid Karzai

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Abdoulah, Abdullah, Afghanistan, foreign news coverage, Hamid Karzai, human rights, Pakistan, Pakistan military intelligence (ISI), Taliban, television August 30, 2021

The situation in Afghanistan today, August 30, 2021

See,

1) Jacques Follorou, “En Afghanistan, les talibans seuls aux commandes; Après le départ des Américains, mardi 31 août, les fondamentalistes islamistes, dont les principaux dirigeants se sont réunis à Kandahar, vont devoir gérer une économie à l’arrêt,” Le Monde, le 30 août 2021 (à 10h05, mis à jour à 15h33).

Taliban leaders are gathered in Kandahar for a meeting to define the contours of the new government, and in doing so to sort out ideological and personnel issues related to internal divisions.

Jacques Follorou describes the three main factions within the Taliban .

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Abdoulah, Abdullah, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, corruption, Hamid Karzai, human rights, human rights reports, Intelligence, internal supporters of human rights, State Department, Taliban, targeted assassinations, targeted killings, U.S. Intervention, U.S. Military, United States August 19, 2012

REPRISE: Reasoning from Conclusions in Afghanistan

See Jennifer Rowland, “NATO under-reporting green-on-blue violence,” Foreign Policy, May 1, 2012. Editorial, “The Enemy Within,” New York Times, August 20, 2012. REPRISE First published…

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Afghanistan, Barack Obama, CIA, corruption, elections, Hamid Karzai, Iran, Justice Department, Taliban, United States November 11, 2010

Corrupt-istan Update: Karzai’s Brazen Defiance

When someone like Karzai persistently directs lies and insults against you, while you are funding the very security that enables him to stay in power, you must either stand up and burst the bonds of a dependent and abusive relationship, or suffer the consequencdes of being a wimp.

In this case, the consequnces of being a wimp are likely to be the continued loss of American and Allied lives and treasure, to no avail, and eventually the collapse of the Afghan government.

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Afghanistan, Barack Obama, CIA, elections, Intelligence, International Law, Pakistan, Pakistan military, Taliban, targeted assassinations, targeted killings, U.S. Military, use of force October 3, 2010

Strategic disarray in Afghanistan

“The current near-term strategy appears to be to try to kill enough of the Taliban’s leaders to force them to negotiate a settlement on terms acceptable to Hamid Karzai.”

“This war will not be won, or defeat avoided, by fine intellectual distinctions.”

“What Obama needs to do is to take the bull by the horns, and start exploring options for the early departure of Hamid Karzai. This will be a monumentally challenging task. So was D-Day in World War II.”

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Abdoulah, Abdullah, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, CIA, Dictatorship, elections, Hamid Karzai, human rights, Intelligence, internal supporters of human rights, International Law, Justice Department, NATO, Pakistan, Pakistan military, State Department, Taliban, U.S. Military, United States September 18, 2010

Fighting corruption and other challenges in Dexter Filkins’ Corrupt-istan

To the Observer, the idea of trying to make Karzai a more central player in efforts to root out corruption in his own government sounds like giving Al Capone a more central role in cleaning up Chicago.