The Obama Administration no longer has has lost for a penchant making Afghanistan a citadel of democracy and freedom . The US wanted to replace Mr. Karzai. Several names were floated. Zalmay Khalilzad was one of them. Other warlords also threw their names in the hat. We wrote about the options in 2008 and 2009. Afghan “Mayor of Kabul” Karzai replacments Khalilzad or Atmar. Many options were considered, but it seems that Mr. Karzai the American enthroned president will be coronated as president (for life?) again. Swapping Karzai for Khalilzad is like moving the deck chairs on the Titanic

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Today another tide is threatening Kabul–it is the tide of the angry Pashtuns. Blaming Pakistan for the incompetence of Mr. Karzai is just plain wrong. The Problems in Kabul are home grown. There is abject poverty, warlordism, rampant heroin production, no central authority, complete collapse of law and order, and no jobs for Afghans. Lack of representation to the Pashtuns, a lack of freedom, and dearth of even the basics of life are the main reasons that the government in Kabul is losing it’s battles to the Taliban. Today’s precarious nature of the Afghan state allows the non-representative mayors of cities (example mayor of Kabul is Mr. Karzai) to disparage Pakistan. Evryday Kabul and NATO cede more territory to the Pashtuns (sometimes labeled as Taliban).

Someone once said, Mr. Karzai speaks many languages, but his best language is “schmooze”. The “Mayor Kabul’s” writ does not extend beyond the walls of his palace. The brilliant Editorial of the Frontier Post (Quetta Edition)  describes the errors of Mr. Karzai and what could have been.

Incompetence of Hamid Karzai reduces his powers in Kabul

Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s recent outpourings please Pakistani ears, but his melody comes too late in the day and after much water has flowed under the bridge. Had he indeed been sincerely friendly toward Pakistan, our joint concerted endeavors might have succeeded in pacifying war-torn Afghanistan and curbing the monstrous extremism that blights both countries so horrifically. His Pashtun ethnicity would have stood him in good stead in bringing peace to Afghanistan’s restive south and east, the community strongholds from which the Taliban draw their main support and are now insurmountably entrenched.

Yet Karzai fell thrall to the Americans, played surrogate to his Northern Alliance allies and took the pathof hostility and animosity toward Pakistan. Though mouthing pious vows toward Pakistan, he kept a dagger in his cloak to stab it right through. Invariably, he rewarded Pakistan’s sincerity withdeceit. He continues to haul Pakistan over the coals at his American masters’ wink. He was never loathto swat Pakistan right, left and center at the behest of his Northern Alliance allies, and never paused to wonder if perhaps they were taking him for a ride as well. The Frontier Post, Pakistan (Quetta). Karzai’s ‘Odes to Pakistan’ Come Too Late to Stop India

As highlighted by the Frontier Post, the Karzai government has made the following blunders:

1) Ran an ineffectual, inefficient, and incompetent government which wasted $143 Billion in aid to Afghanistan.

2) Bunkered himself in Kabul as the “Vichey” puppet government of NATO/ISAF.

3) Consorted with drug warlords and got tangled in drug trade associations.

4) Sold his soul to Delhi and tried to play a game and sent mercenaries to destabilize Pakistan.

[Frontier Post Editor's Note: The Northern Alliance, which drove the Taliban from power with American backing in 2001, is made up of at least six factions that contain Shiites, Persian-speaking Tajiks, Pashtuns and Uzbeks, among others.]

The non-Pashtuns that make up this alliance eventually came to occupy dominant positions in Afghanistan’s power structure, albeit courtesy of the American conquerors in reward for services these non-Pashtuns rendered them in toppling the Taliban and occupying a country traditionally ruled by its Pashtun majority or their appointees. And if to maintain the Alliance, Karzai kept his ethnic Pashtun majority at bay within the country’s power structure, he kept Afghan relations with Pakistan turbulent at its behest as well. The Frontier Post, Pakistan (Quetta). Karzai’s ‘Odes to Pakistan’ Come Too Late to Stop India

President Musharraf recently defined Mr. Karzai as one who double dealt and double crossed people. Mr. Musharraf described him one whose words could not be trusted. The enmity between Mr. Musharraf and Mr. Karzaiwas well known. They could not get along and saw each other with contempt.

The mainstream media has accused Mr. Karzai’s brother of being a drug kingpin. Mr. Karzai has consorted with all sorts of unsavoury characters within Afghanistan and without.

After the Soviets were thrown out of Afghanistan, they left the Khalq and Parcham parties in charge. The Afghans again came begging for Pakistani support to dislodge these repressive governments. In 1992, Pakistani repeatedly tried to stabilize Afghanistan, however the intransigent warlords, poppy-growers and Tajik led government on Kabul would not negotiate with the other Pashtuns and refused to share power with the Afghans. Mr. Hamid Karzai is a self-professed Taliban, as are many members of his government.

Mr. Karzai himself was on the ISI payroll and lived in Quetta fighting the regime in power in Kabul in 1992.Mr. Karzaiwas proposed as the Afghan representative of the Taliban to the UN. The Americans will one day leave. The present leadership in Kabul should build bridges with her neighbors Congratulations to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist for recognizing the problems in Afghanistan. Perhaps Mr. Frist remembers, the now forgotten blunders of the US government; namely allowing the unpopular Northern Alliance Tajiks to take over Kabul. This blunder was even worse than walking away from Afghanistan in the 80s. The non-Pashtun take over of Kabul, sowed the seeds of today’s quagmire facing NATO

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For example, he could not be unaware of the Alliance’s chumminess with India. Nor could he be oblivious to the Alliance’s machinations to strategically embed India within Afghanistan – to the detriment of Pakistan’s compelling security interests. Yet he didn’t so much as bat an eyelash at this scheming against Pakistan. And he became an acquiescent participant, if not an active one, in the plots hatched by Alliance-dominated Afghan intelligence in collusion with the CIA, RAW [India's Research and Analysis Wing' and the Mossad [Israeli Intelligence] to hurt and destabilize Pakistan.

Neither could he be ignorant of the anti-Pakistan activities of dissidents from Baluchistan holed up in safe havens in Afghanistan [Baluchistan is a restive part of both Pakistan and Afghanistan. This newspaper is published in Quetta, capital of Pakistani Baluchistan]. Yet when confronted with these inimical activities occurring in his country, he manages to keeps a straight, while impudently and churlishly demonizing Pakistan. This really hurts, coming from a man who couldn’t be ignorant of the tremendous sacrifices Pakistan has made for Afghanistan – and the immense suffering it has been borne in its interests.

Although before becoming president, Karzai had only a secondary role in the Afghan-jihadi power structure, he knows full well how Pakistan stuck out its neck out during the vacation of the Soviet aggressor in Afghanistan – and at great risk to its own security. India, he must not have forgotten, was staunchly on the Soviet side. And just as it then struggled desperately to overcome the fallout of that involvement, Pakistan now finds itself in the perilous and bristling minefield of yet another pacification campaign there – once again thanklessly.

Nonetheless, if Afghanistan’s predominantly Pashtun South and East are under the resurgent Taliban’s thumb, Karzai has only himself to blame. He never understood that the Northern Alliance, for vested political reasons, would very much want these Pashtun regions to be in a perpetual state of disturbance. That way, the non-Pashtun supremacy in the existing power structure would go unchallenged. Similarly, its Indian friends want the Pashtuns to stay sidelined, since the existing status quo serves India well.

By sheer quirk of circumstances, Karzai may recapture the presidency in the August polls. For the present, he looks to be a shoo-in, as no formidable contender has yet emerged. But he will remain a lame duck, as the Obama Administration is quite averse to him and will find ways to bypass him. By every measure, Hamid Karzai has burned all his boats. So his odes to Pakistan will be of no avail now, as Pakistan itself is becoming a victim of Obama’s Af-Pak strategy. In this scheme, both Pakistan and Afghanistan figure only as foot soldiers, with India occupying the seat of full American partner in the region. The Frontier Post, Pakistan (Quetta). Karzai’s ‘Odes to Pakistan’ Come Too Late to Stop India

The allies were repeatedly warned that a Northern Alliance led government would not be acceptable to at least 12 of the Pashtun (and pro-talibaan) Afghan provinces and a minority takeover would exacerbate the problems in Afghanistan. This sound advice was ignored. The majority Pashtunshould have created a new government in Afghanistan. However coalition naivety combined with hubris could not resist “Manufacturing consent” (Noam Chomsky’ explanation in his book) by orchestrating elections (where the number of voters exceeded the population) and imposing a minority, non-Pashtun, anti-Pakistan government in Kabul. It is common sense that an anti-Pakistan government and Kabul’s hostile strategy towards Pakistan can never garnish total support from Musharraf or the Pakistani establishment. Millions of Afghan refugees still live in Pakistan.

They cross the Durand Line at will. Mr. Karzai, the mayor of Kabul is disingenuous in showing surprise and complaining about the traffic across the Durand line. This has been going on for centuries. If Afghanistan in concerned about these elements (Afghan Pashtuns), then it should accept all the refugees back or make condition conducive to their return. Pakistan has a host of these refugees forced on her and also held responsible for the activities of Afghan citizens when they go home. The war in Afghanistan cannot be won by military means. Sanity has been saying this to deaf ears. Pakistan’s peace deal with North Waziristan has been widely criticized, however this pact is the real blueprint for peace on the Afghan side also.

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