Karzai questions US reliability

The Agency France-Presse and the Washington Times report that Afghan President Hamid Karzai wondered aloud to CNN if the US is a reliable partner. Of course, he says that to deflect criticism from the alleged corruption in recent Afghan elections, but he’d have no point if the Obama Administration hadn’t left him an opening;

“Is the United States a reliable partner with Afghanistan? Is the West a reliable partner with Afghanistan?” Mr. Karzai asked. “Have we received the commitments that we were given? Have we been treated like a partner?”

Mr. Karzai said a partnership to him was “where the Afghan lives are respected, where Afghan property is respected, where the Afghan traditions are respected, where we know the direction we are moving to.”

The comments appeared to allude to Mr. Karzai’s longstanding criticism of civilian deaths in U.S. air strikes, and to President Obama’s still-unresolved review of U.S. strategy and a request by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, for up to 40,000 more troops.

Weeks after General McChrystal made his request, we’re still waiting for an answer. The head of the largest information-gathering organization in the world can’t translate that information into action. And the answer is so simple; can we afford to lose Afghanistan? Can we afford to walk away again like we did in 1988? Has Joe Biden ever offered a solution that wasn’t hare-brained?

Even a cursory examination of the facts related to those questions yields a resounding “no” to each. So what’s the delay?

More disturbing? Aside from the Washington Times and Breitbart, no other US news source is running the story. Do a Yahoo search on the title of the article and see for yourself.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Media, Terror War