Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a
Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
again ruled out peace talks with the Taliban until he knew how to contact the krazed killer group, and until then Afghanistan would talk only to Pakistain.
"We cannot keep talking to jacket wallahs, therefore we have stopped talking about talking to the Taliban until we have an address for the Taliban ... until that day we have said we will be talking to our brothers in Pakistain to find a solution to the problem that we have," he said.
Karzai was speaking at a presser in Istanbul alongside Pakistain's President
Asif Ali President Ten PercentZardari
... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ...
following a summit hosted by Turkey to try to heal a rift over the September liquidation of Afghan peace envoy Burhanuddin Rabbani
... the gentlemanly murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan...
Shortly after Rabbani's liquidation in September, Karzai said there was no point talking to the faceless myrmidons and therefore it was best to talk directly with the Paks.
While Pakistain and Afghanistan agreed to set up a "joint mechanism" to investigate Rabbani's liquidation by a suicide bomber posing as a Taliban peace emissary, Karzai's comments suggested the two countries were far from resolving their differences.
"We have been hurt badly, our desire for peace has been either misunderstood or misused and we have learnt a lesson from the manner in which we pursued the grinding of the peace processor," Karzai said.
Afghanistan accuses Pakistain of supporting the Taliban and has said that Rabbani's killer was sent from the Pak city of Quetta.