are you being serious???!!! :@

[khushal]

Karzai is just acting to be upset for the afghan eyes, but acts differently for the american eyes. he has two different publics he has to keep happy, remember his major is political science.

AS far as this sargent is concerned, we dont even know if he actually did anything since he claims to have no memory of the event, it seems more likely that many soldiers were involved and he is the scapegoat.

[Karpo]

A foreign army never has the right to revenge, this is why they are demoralized and resorting to crimes- because they have lost.

http://www.newser.com/article/d9tkk1ho0/afghan-villagers-are-convinced-slaying-of-16-civilians-was-in-retaliation-for-roadside-bombing.html

"Then a NATO soldier said through his translator that even our children will pay for this. Now they have done it and taken their revenge."

Naek Mohammad, who lives in Mokhoyan, told the AP that he heard an explosion March 8 and went outside. As he and a neighbor talked about what happened, he said, two Afghan soldiers ordered them to join other men from the village who had been told to stand against a wall.

"One of the villagers asked what was happening," he said. "The Afghan army soldier told him, `Shut up and stand there.'"
Mohammad said a U.S. soldier, speaking through a translator, then said: "I know you are all involved and you support the insurgents. So now, you will pay for it _ you and your children will pay for this.'"

ANA was involved too

[Afghanistan2010]

I hope when someone shoots this soldier he should not miss his lawyer,the one defend a criminal is himself a criminal.

[Breshna]

I hope when someone shoots this soldier he should not miss his lawyer,the one defend a criminal is himself a criminal.

Nothing ever...happens to devils...

its a devils...playground.

[Karpo]

Sad thing is if Mr. Karzai just stood up for his people and truly sided with them and put aside this fake aura of being the Obama of Afghanistan everyone would back him. If he is worried about support, who is greater for support than the Afghan people themselves. He is a at a critical juncture and is taking the same steps as before. If he wants talks with his enemies who have side stepped him for Qatar, he could even win them over by standing up, handing the nation back to the Afghan people, taking on a diplomatic role between all teh subsequent contentious groups, and then retiring with his life, his sanity, his wife, and his children with a clean heart and clean hands. However, the last few years and the fall of Ben Ali, Qadafi, Hussein, the flight of Musharraf, the angst of Assad, and court case against Mubarak were not enough in terms of signs for Mr Karzai that he should trust no one but his own people.

He wont. He is a fool and thinks that he can sustain the US occupation for a while longer. However, i think he sees the writing on the wall.

it matters not what pact he signs with US, Britain, or anyone else. Thats over, and the constant proclamtions of 'deals' should be enough of an indicator to see that its simply rendered a joke. Plus for Afghans is the region will not accept it or tolerate it in any shape or form.

His whole anti-Pakistan narrative is fraught with irony for he did not cross into Afghanistan on motorcycles as he claims, but on a US helicopter that took off from Islamabad. The US occupation that props him up is made possible by Pakistan with Pakistan's full support. In other words, he has been lock, stock, and barrel in step with Pakistan and the US in regards to the so-called War on Terror.

It was despicable that at the meeting where the village tribal leaders from Panjwai voiced their anger, he again had the nerve to indirectly accuse them of being Pakistani spies ( that is what he indeed did when he brought up Pakistan). Boiling it down to the essential, the false anti-Pakistan rhetoric is his opposition to the opposition to his tenure/occupation


This man is not only evil, but also weak and pathetic. What man can hold his own children (2 he has now), and have disregard for the nations children? This is no leader, but a failure in every shape and form.


He gets the distinction of being the biggest insult to Afghanistan. He is not even a Shah Shuja.

He will not do Afghanistan a favor just as Qaddafi did not do his nation a favor, and just as Assad is not doing for his people. Issue here is Karzai does not even compare to them since they still had support whereas karzai has no support at all. This is how he is probably the most pathetic 'leader' out there.

he seems to be woefully and perhaps eagerly blind to what is going on all across the wider region.

Dont expect him to stay back like Qaddafi or Saddam.

Assad is going to flee Syria, and karzai will do the same,

[Pakhtunzai]

What do we expect from a kafir army backed up by a kafir judicial system and headed by kafir leadership....They've released tons of people who supposedly committed war crimes. Their motto is: Make your own rules, do whatever you like....


Muslims are taking a huge battering at the moment but when we finally realise....

[Catya Sher]

^ Good comment, and many others too, here.

This is the first I heard the news.
It's shattering.

By the way Assad was offered asylum in Doha, according to some secret
emails released to the London Guardian,
but I don't think that he and his Western-couturier-dressed wife
are considering the option of leaving the country at ALL.
A daughter of some important figure there had offered this to Asma, the wife,
and relations between turned chilly after that.
So obviously the Assads are not particularly exploring this avenue.

I can't see Karzai departing for exile, either.
He probably would be killed sooner or later by somebody - like a bodyguard, probably.

Alexander the Great was wounded in Multan, that time the arrow went
into his lung, not leg - small correction.

[Amir al Ghaznavi]

^ Good comment, and many others too, here.

This is the first I heard the news.
It's shattering.

By the way Assad was offered asylum in Doha, according to some secret
emails released to the London Guardian,
but I don't think that he and his Western-couturier-dressed wife
are considering the option of leaving the country at ALL.
A daughter of some important figure there had offered this to Asma, the wife,
and relations between turned chilly after that.
So obviously the Assads are not particularly exploring this avenue.

I can't see Karzai departing for exile, either.
He probably would be killed sooner or later by somebody - like a bodyguard, probably.

Alexander the Great was wounded in Multan, that time the arrow went
into his lung, not leg - small correction.

Ya right, Karzai will be back to flipping Shami Kababs in Virginia with the quickness....

[Catya Sher]

^Not too likely. If anything he would be plopped into an honorary chair
at Princeton, sought after for interviews by many sycophants and retire
to Jamaica...

About the Assads, an article came out today which backs up what I had thought
about the not great likelihood of their fleeing abroad.
By the way it was actually the daughter of the Emir of Qatar who exhorted
Asma to take asylum in her country.

"The Guardian said the 3,000 e-mails had been obtained from a mole in the regime via opposition sources. If genuine, they show no evidence of a president and first lady ready to throw in the towel.
On the contrary, Assad wrote to the address The Guardian says is the president's, saying, "If we are strong together, we will overcome this ..."