Hamid Karzai

Afghans want Obama to hold Karzai's feet to the fire Additional troops and resources should be conditional on the cleaning up of Afghanistan's government. On Afghanistan's independence day in August, my friends in Kandahar were puzzled. Why...

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Sending more American civilians to Afghanistan is part of President Barack Obama's strategy review as he seeks to turn around the eight-year war and improve the performance of the Karzai government while reining in a culture of corruption.

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As polls showed popular support for the war plunging, leaders including US President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen began browbeating Karzai to prove his worth.

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...Holbrooke and Eikenberry stayed until dinner was finished, the meeting ended in acrimony. Karzai later sought to call Obama to complain. But White House aides, who deemed the Afghan leader's ploy inappropriate, said he was unavailable.

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...of the indispensable man he was to former President George W. Bush. Obama praised Karzai for holding his government together but declined to say he trusts him. "I'm less concerned about any individual than I am with a government as a...

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Can Obama count on Karzai? By Patrick Doherty, Special to CNN The United States must find a way to back a full national reconciliation process in Afghanistan, Patrick Doherty says. Afghan President Hamid Karzai stole the election, Patrick...

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...conflict to a future president. He offered only tepid praise for Afghan President Hamid Karzai, playing down the importance of a leader whose government has been accused of rampant corruption and ineffectiveness. The allegations of misconduct,...

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