I agree with this:
By accusing NATO and the UN of conspiring to commit the fraud he himself practiced in last summer's elections, and then threatening to spearhead opposition by local clan elders to a NATO offensive later this year or even to join the Taliban himself, Mr Karzai is making NATO's huge investment of force to prop up his corrupt, incompetent government appear buffoonish. Where the killing of civilians by NATO forces might be seen as a tragic accident in a necessary war, they instead symbolise the possibility that the entire effort has been nothing but a meaningless exercise of misguided violence. Mr Karzai's behaviour makes it seem that civilian victims of NATO violence died for nothing.
What will the judgment of history be on those who refused to accept reality, but supported the Afghan surge a few years from now, when it will become impossible to deny that the US/NATO cannot to win in Afghanistan even though it might be in their interest to do so?
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