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Here is an example of the type of hypocritical trash you are asking me to support:
In 1994, however, Karzai’s advice to the diplomats was that they should support the Taliban. American diplomat Richard Smyth, the US consul general in Peshawar at that time, remembered him coming to his office. “Karzai said: ‘they are disciplined, they have vision and its not based on parties like we have right now.’ I think Karzai thought this system would help him also. To be any kind of leader, you are what the country needs at that time. Karzai was ambitious, for the good of the country, I think.” Smyth was sceptical, but he asked Karzai to arrange a meeting with the Taliban. “That took a while, but he arranged it in the end.” The Taliban asked for support according to Smyth, but the diplomat said they were not taking sides. Karzai went one step further with his friend Norbert Holl and asked him if he should work for the Taliban. “He went several times to Rome to meet the King in exile, but also met the Taliban in Gulf states.” Holl said that “trying too many things at the same time would jeopardise his credibility”. Karzai would ignore that advice and until the end of 1996 was in the race for a job with the Taliban. […]
But however generous Karzai was toward the Taliban, he couldn’t gain the trust of the senior Taliban rulers or Mullah [Muhammad] Omar himself. He first sent his half-brother Ahmed Wali Karzai to Yar Mohammed […] and then to Mullah Ghaus ([both] Popolzai Taliban) who were both in Kandahar. Please let him be the UN ambassador, his half-brother said. Both said that Mullah Omar didn’t support the idea. After another visit, Mullah Ghaus said: Mullah Omar prefers a little Talib over Hamid Karzai, sorry

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