| Admittedly, that is what it looks like our honourable president is doing... |
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...
's government.
"The US pursues its goals in the area of foreign policy with a profit-seeking outlook," he stated, citing the White House's USD-100-million aid package, which is headed for a Taliban liaison office, planned to be set up in Doha, Qatar.
The MP said the US had a history of fostering terrorism, accusing Washington of equipping and training Talibs in Pakistain and Soddy Arabia to use them against the other countries in the region.
In line with the US policy, "this group rebelled against the government of the late [Afghanistan's Caped President] Burhanuddin Rabbani
... the gentlemanly murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan...
," he explained.
Ebrahimi also pointed out the close cooperation between Taliban elements and al-Qaeda beturbanned goons during Taliban's rule in Afghanistan -- which lasted from 1996 until 2001.
"The US, after the September 11 [, 2001] incident, took on fighting terrorism in Afghanistan as a pretext to pour its troops into the region and occupied Iran's eastern neighbor with the help of NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
forces," he noted.
The Iranian parliamentarian criticized the u-turn made in Washington's policy and its support for the Taliban and blamed the US for turning a blind eye to Taliban's atrocities against the Afghan nation as means of promoting the US own interests in the region.
On Wednesday, Karzai bowed to pressure from the White House to agree on the opening of a liaison office by the Taliban bad boy group in the Qatari capital towards the alleged aim of saving Afghanistan from 'conflict, conspiracy and the killings of innocent people.'
Washington had previously agreed with Taliban leaders on the setting up of the office in a deal, which also guaranteed the release of several high-ranking Taliban figures by the US.
Pak media also reported last week that the name of Taliban's founder and leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, who has been in hiding since the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan, has been taken off the FBI's list of most wanted terrorists. The move infuriated the Afghan government, which has asked the US embassy in Kabul for an explanation.
Top Taliban capo Mullah Mohammed Fazl, who has been held at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba since early 2002, is reportedly among those slated for release by the US. The potential release, which has been described as an alleged attempt to facilitate peace talks between the beturbanned goons and Kabul, comes despite Fazl being accused of human rights
...not to be confused with
individual rights,mind you...
abuses.