Nazia Posted December 29, 2006 Report Posted December 29, 2006 Now...now. I am quite intrigued by the participants of this site...as I joined a few days ago. I have already input alot into the articles but I would like a taste of your brains/thoughts. What are you're opinions on Hamid Karzai? Is he being sold out by Bush.... Is he a good guy.... Is he blah blah blha...fill in your opinions. .... Quote
leonardcohen Posted January 1, 2007 Report Posted January 1, 2007 Now...now.I am quite intrigued by the participants of this site...as I joined a few days ago. I have already input alot into the articles but I would like a taste of your brains/thoughts. What are you're opinions on Hamid Karzai? Is he being sold out by Bush.... Is he a good guy.... Is he blah blah blha...fill in your opinions. .... My opinion of him is simply based on impressions of him that i gathered from news reports and such is that is simply a good but ineffectual man in above his head He has,i'm sure the best intentions but i fear that he not strong enough to halt the bloodshed. Saddam Hussein for his many faults,yes i know i'm vastly understating things but bear with me, was a strong and ruthless leader,but he kept the country together,even if it was the fear of his sheer ruthlessness that kept the peoples hatred of each other focused on him. In a country with a history of strong ethnic hatred,perhaps it takes a ruthless hand to keep things together,whether the price paid in lives and destruction is worth it is a question answered by more knowledgable and wiser persons than myself. Quote Whatever Thy Hand Finds To Do- Do With All Thy Might!
Fortunata Posted January 1, 2007 Report Posted January 1, 2007 I think he's hamstrung by known (and unknown) corrupt government officials, including elected representatives, police officers, customs people, etc. and limited by war lords to the actual areas of influence. Even though people say he is another puppet installation, I think he's trying but, right now, there is too much out of government control (including government). Army Guy or Canadian Blue may know a lot more than we civilians know. Quote
myata Posted January 2, 2007 Report Posted January 2, 2007 In my view, Karzai has associated himself (and his government) with the West a bit too closely. This is in the country that has a history of troubled relations with western neighbours (Britain, Russia, US). There's nothing so far that would give us any indication that he would be able to control the country without massive support from the west. This makes him, in the eyes of many, a puppet of the West, hardly a stable position. This is a general problem with foreign powers trying to interfere in the countries where they have little or no clue of internal power dynamics. Removing established power is not an answer to any problem, unless a stable, locally supported and trusted alternative is available. Quote If it's you or them, the truth is equidistant
Nazia Posted January 3, 2007 Author Report Posted January 3, 2007 Myata I agree with you. I think Karzai is a good guy but hes not really the government. I think Bush paid him which he does 1,5 billion dollars a year to stand as goverment and to show that Afghanistan has a democratic system. Hamid Karzai took this oppurunity in good intentions but he is far to weak!!! He's afraid he will die...he is as myata said associating with the west to closely. I for one hate Bush and would like him to stop interferring in Afghansitan's and all Muslim countries affairs. Hamid Karzai's life is going to end quite shortly...he will die soon. Quote
jbg Posted January 4, 2007 Report Posted January 4, 2007 Myata I agree with you.I think Karzai is a good guy but hes not really the government. This portion of the post I agree wtih. I think it is rare, in Afghanistan, that Kabul's writ ran or runs far from Kabul. The concept of the "nation-state" doesn't work well in areas where people's organization is primarily tribal. It's at best an ill-fitting concept. The problem, of course, is that Afghanistan is surrounded by countries where the nation-state concept fits better. Iran and India for instance (yes, I know that Pakistan is technically Afghanistan's bordering country, but it is more or less the tribal hangnail of the former expanded India, and separated off rather than being under the boot of majority Hindus). I think Bush paid him which he does 1,5 billion dollars a year to stand as goverment and to show that Afghanistan has a democratic system. Hamid Karzai took this oppurunity in good intentions but he is far to weak!!! He's afraid he will die...he is as myata said associating with the west to closely. I for one hate Bush and would like him to stop interferring in Afghansitan's and all Muslim countries affairs. Hamid Karzai's life is going to end quite shortly...he will die soon. I think this part of the post is going too far, and has no evidence to support it. There is nothing wrong, IMHO, with Bush's trying to improvise a "work-around" for the problem of the lack of a viable nation-state, or the possibility of building one. Quote Free speech: "You can say what you want, but I don't have to lend you my megaphone." Always remember that when you are in the right you can afford to keep your temper, and when you are in the wrong you cannot afford to lose it. - J.J. Reynolds. Will the steps anyone is proposing to fight "climate change" reduce a single temperature, by a single degree, at a single location? The mantra of "world opinion" or the views of the "international community" betrays flabby and weak reasoning (link).
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