Afghanistan: The Forgotten War

[shraby]

The headline of the UPI story detailing President Hamid Karzai's recent trip to Washington – "Afghanistan is Bush's good news" – was in stark contrast to content of the piece, which started out tellingly:

"Standing beside President George W. Bush in the White House Rose Garden Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's head of state, observed jokingly that perhaps he would remain in the United States instead of returning to Kabul. 'One likes to stay here and not go, it's such a good country,' he said.

"If he expected Bush to reply that he would be welcome, he was disappointed. 'Get home and get to work, will you?' the president said, only half joking."

Poor Karzai, the best-dressed President East of Rome and West of Hollywood: he never gets to flash those classy threads to an audience more appreciative than an assembly of goat-herders. How he must savor his rare visits to what passes for the civilized world, where he gets to address a joint session of Congress, and, no doubt, consult with fashionista Tom Ford – formerly the "creative director" over at Gucci, and his number one fan – who hails the Afghan chief exec as "the chic-est man on the planet." You can hardly blame Karzai for not wanting to go back to the daily grind of pretending to be the "President" of the make-believe "nation" of Afghanistan, when he has to return to this:

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[izzie]

1. I hope I am wrong but it sounds like after their last war.

I do not think the news is good at all from that country. I think we for got it as it was not rich enough. No reason for a large corp. to try and set up a business there. Bush and CO has sold off Iraq to large corp. I read even hosp. will have to buy their stuff from us. We will even produced the bodies for them! Oh sorry about that,"The Far Side" is coming out in my thinking.