That phony fraud Karzai Is not worth dying for

During the Vietnam War era, a decorated veteran named John Kerry appeared before a Congressional committee to denounce what he had been fighting for, realizing it was a folly propped up by politicians in a corrupt country and their cohorts in the United States government. “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?” he asked, a question the European Union and American President Barack Obama, who’s never been in combat and is about to send thousands more American targets to Afghanistan, should ask themselves.
Incredulously, Obama said he recognized that Afghanistan’s corrupt-to-the-core President Hamid Karzai is the legitimate leader of that misbegotten Asian country even though Karzai stole the election so openly that the United Nations, which never saw a mistake it didn’t try to cover up, said was so egregiously fraudulent a new one was ordered. But the bad guys always count on the good guys to do the right thing, so Karzai’s challenger, an intelligent man named Abdullah Abdullah, knew the cards were stacked and said the second election would be phony too and wanted no part of it. That meant that Karzai was fraudulently re-elected president of a country where the EU and US cavalierly dispatches soldiers to die to defend him. How do you explain that at the Fletcher School of Diplomacy at Tufts University or the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations?
The EU’s Chief Apologist, Javier Solana, who loves flitting from crisis to crisis without solving any, had the unmitigated chutzpah – after the EU denounced Karzai’s election – to congratulate him, even while the Taliban was busy blowing up American and EU troops with Improvised Explosive Devices, none of which are found in the corridors of power in Brussels or Washington, unless you want to count what comes out of the mouths of politicians. 
“I am confident that President Karzai will form … a government that (...) adequately reflects the outcome of the electoral process,” Solana said. So if you take Solana at his word, he’s counting on a continuation of corruption in a place where you have pay the police to get someone out of jail, unless the Taliban blows it up first, and if Karzai was inside at the time he’d know what a war is.
The United States views Karzai as the president following Abdullah’s decision to drop out of the fixed run-off election. Meanwhile, Mr. Change, Obama, had his White House spokesman, an arrogant little-minded man named Robert Gibbs, say that since Karzai was re-elected – fraudulently – “Obviously, he’s the legitimate head of the country.”  A legitimate fraud? Then so is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who stole Iran’s election through fraud, the legitimate head of that country, but he won’t be getting any congratulatory calls from pious hypocrites like Solana or Obama because Karzai is their guy. Hitler was elected too, and he didn’t need fraud to do it, and neither did Obama, so he should understand what a free and fair election is. Clausewitz, the 18th-Century Prussian soldier and military historian knew what they didn’t, 200 years ago, when he said “Politics is war by another means,” but what Obama and Solana haven’t learned is that what Popeye – yes, Popeye – said is the real truth here, that: “What’s right is right, and what’s wrong is wrong, even if it helps you.” And if Solana and Obama had to make the decision to die themselves for Karzai, they’d do what’s right and not let some other man or woman die for their mistake.
 Andy@NEurope.eu