Intersante artículo de Justin Raimondo en Antiwar.com sobre el futuro de Hamid Karzai (o el poco que le queda) después de que haya acusado a Estados Unidos de manipular las pasadas elecciones y haya amenazado con unirse a las fuerzas talibanes.
Billions of taxpayer dollars are going to aid the Afghan government – an entity that, for all intents and purposes, doesn’t really exist. What exists are names on an organizational chart, a few offices in US-NATO –held areas, a seat in the United Nations, and that’s just about it. This gossamer network of paid shills and American-educated sock-puppets is superimposed over the real power structure of clan leaders and warlords, a thin thread that could break at any moment. No one knows this better than Karzai, and so he has taken a new tack to ensure his political – and physical – survival. No amount of "spin" can interpret the following report, taken from the Times of London, except as open subversion of the US-NATO war effort. (...) [A]t this point it’s fair to ask what, exactly, are we building – the largely imaginary national "government" headed by Karzai, who can only hope to gain popular support by denouncing Washington? (...)
The great problem we have yet to overcome in Afghanistan is that the majority of the population clearly sympathizes with what American journalists lazily call "the Taliban," and which is really a series of local insurgencies which have largely supplanted the old Taliban leadership of Mullah Omar as the chief military resistance to the occupation. Both the fighting core of the Taliban and certainly Al-Qaeda have long since fled to Pakistan and points beyond: what we are fighting in Afghanistan is a fresh crop of militants bred in the horror of nearly ten years of constant warfare.
