Zalmay Khalilzad in Donald Trump’s List for US Secretary of State

[Shapur]

Reports have emerged regarding the possible picks in Donald Trump’s administration less than a week after he was elected as the new US President.
A list of the possible picks for the cabinet and other key posts has been handed over to Vice President-elect Mike Pence, which include a host of corporate consultants and lobbyists in addition to independent experts.
According to The New York Times, the former US Ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad and the former commander of the US forces in Afghanistan Stanley A. McChrystal are among the possible picks for the post of Secretary of State.
The picks for the post include John R. Bolton Former United States ambassador to the United Nations under George W. Bush, Bob Corker Senator from Tennessee and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Newt Gingrich Former House speaker.
Khalilzad has served as the US Ambassador to Afghanistan from November 2003 to June 2005 under the George W. Bush administration and moved to Iraq in 2005 to serve as the US Ambassador until April 2007.
He has also served as the US Ambassador to the United Nations until late June 2009.

[Iblis_Efreetzai]

Zalmay Khalilzad has done a terrible job.......he's the dark side of Pashtuns.

[Shapur]

Zalmay Khalilzad has done a terrible job.......he's the dark side of Pashtuns.

Even though Khalilzad is not considered a proper Afghan, he can be useful tool against Pakistani establishment who want to use the war against terror to get aid from the US.

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[Iblis_Efreetzai]

Even though Khalilzad is not considered a proper Afghan, he can be useful tool against Pakistani establishment who want to use the war against terror to get aid from the US.

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That might be his only redeemable quality; but he helped facilitate U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan and installment of a kleptocratic government.

[nary]

That might be his only redeemable quality; but he helped facilitate U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan and installment of a kleptocratic government.

Zalmay Khalilzad is not a Pashtun

[DSM0305]

That is great. Perhaps he can turn things in favor of Afghanistan.

[khushal]

You guys are dreamers. The spot would go to Giuliani or Gingrich. This moron would serve a submissive role in the State department. Most of the people that are fighting to go inside the Trump circle are warhawks who will divert the US treasury to funding military adventures especially now that Priebus is Chief of Staff. It will be business as usual and the people that voted Trump into office(who were the same people that voted Obama into office) will be left behind again.

[khushal]

Even though Khalilzad is not considered a proper Afghan, he can be useful tool against Pakistani establishment who want to use the war against terror to get aid from the US.

Shapur,
The pakistani establishment will always be funded and will never be left behind to be toppled since the pakistani establishment is essential to keep the region divided and US hegemony rule over the region possible.