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Karzai
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RichardKanePA | 03.30.2010
The Afghan capitol is in the midst of peace fever, especially the Karzai government. Some in Kabul fear of such things as the having to wear the veil in public again as President Karzai works together toward a comprehensive peace plan with the top Taliban supporting warlord, 60-year-old Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. The news is discussed not only by Afghans, but in India and Australia as well. Al Qaeda telling the Internet that Hekmatyar, who as a young man threw acid in an unveiled woman's face, has a habit of changing sides and urging the rest of the Taliban supporters to consider he only represents himself. War coverage unlike in past wars has been so limited that the reader might think I’m making it up that most of Kabul is dwelling on these efforts, unless one googles "Peace Negotiation Breakthrough in the Afghan War", then Insurgent Faction Presents Afghan Peace Plan President Obama, just returning from visiting Afghanistan, when I began writing this essay, partly pulled the rug out from under Karzai when Obama scolded Karzai about corruption. This, since Hekmatyar the top al Qaeda supporting warlord who Karzai is negotiating toward power sharing with is clearly corrupt. Every Afghan political official came to office through corruption and/or through being a warlord with the exception of Karzai, who used to be a top Northern Alliance official living off his brother's income, but not directives. In the US almost everyone including so-called experts are fixated with Vietnam War history. The UN peace negotiating experts are very much involved in the negotiations. UN peace experts know that peace overwhelmingly comes, or fa
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RichardKanePA | 02.07.2010
Many are frustrated that so little has changed since Obama became President. But one thing has changed. People used to dread things suddenly getting far worse in a hurry. Today, no one looks at the crackdowns in Iran as an omen on what might happen in the US. I remember exposes claiming internment camps and secret memos. However, we live in the cyber-age where we may have so idea of the exact address of the people we communicate with. Ordinary people can get suspicious when a website that screams too much disappears, without wondering if an important phone call never was received. Junk mail may continue to arrive, but not an important letter. 
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