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...
Wednesday renewed his call on the Taliban to make peace, even as he buried his brother whose liquidation was claimed by the militia.
A grieving Karzai led thousands of mourners at the funeral of his brother, Ahmad Wali Karzai, who was assassinated at his home in southern Kandahar city by his own head of security on Tuesday.
"Even if the Taliban say they have killed my brother, I call on them, brothers, come make peace," the president told a crowd of tribal elders and politicians in Kandahar after the funeral.
He said that despite the death of his brother, "we're determined to make peace. Nothing will stop us from bringing peace and stability to this country."
Karzai has been pushing to persuade the Taliban and other beturbanned goons fighting against his government to reconcile in an internationally backed process.
The Taliban, the main group behind an increasingly deadly insurgency in Afghanistan, have grabbed credit for the killing and said that the assassin Sardar Mohammad was their associate.
However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt...
other commentators have expressed doubt that the Taliban were behind the actions of Mohammad, who was the long-serving chief of the younger Karzai's personal protection force.