Dostum...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier...
to visit New York and Washington to discuss the situation of the country with the American officials, it has been reported.
| I appreciate all the good work Dostum has done in the WoT. I'd also never want him mad at me... |
The message to deny entry to Gen. Dostum to United States was passed to the Afghan government days before his departure, the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
quoting multiple Afghan and American officials reported. The report further added that the Afghan government quickly and quietly canceled Gen. Dostum’s visit in a bid to avoid a humiliating public spectacle.
However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
Gen. Dostum has said that the trip was cancelled due to tenuous security situation in the country.
"I personally intend to visit as soon as the situation here allows," Gen. Dostum said in the interview with the Voice of America radio.
He assured listeners that he had many friends in Washington -- "I am well acquainted with our Pentagon friends and congressmen," he said -- and that he would tell them how things were in Afghanistan.
"I want to discuss the situation with them," he said. "They have to take this issue seriously. Otherwise, it might get out of control."
According to the Times, that discussion seems unlikely to happen anytime soon. Gen. Dostum’s inability to secure entry to the United States is in fact a longstanding issue.
In 2013, Representative Dana Rohrabacher
...Representative for Caliphornia's 48th congressional district, and previously the 46th, 45th and 42nd, serving since 1989. He is a member of the Republican Party and a former speech writer for President Reagan...
, a Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Republican who has known Mr. Dostum for decades, personally asked Secretary of State John F.
I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a
lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
to grant him a visa. At the time, Mr. Rohrabacher said he was seeking to bring Mr. Dostum to Washington to discuss the war and the future of the Afghan government.
No visa was issued then, and Gen. Dostum’s election as vice president the following year has not changed the B.O. regime’s view of him or its willingness to let him visit the United States, said two senior American officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid antagonizing the Afghan government. American officials do not want to be seen with him, one said.