Friday, January 23, 2009

Bush's 'puppet in Kabul' will not go quietly


By Patrick Cockburn

"Hamid Karzai is fighting for his political life. He has often been written off as "the mayor of Kabul", but he does not intend to go quietly just because the Pentagon has increasingly seen him as an obstacle to its plans for a "surge" or increase in US troop strength by 20,000 or 30,000 to try to turn the corner in the Afghan war......."

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