Photo: Abdullah Abdullah, the opposition leader in Afghanistan, says he will run again for the Afghan presidency in 2014. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)Iran’s Cash For Karzai Buys Years Of Loyalty -- Washington Times
Opposition leader explains.
Iran began delivering money to Afghan President Hamid Karzai as early as 2003, a former Afghan official says.
“It started in a sort of transparent manner when I was the foreign minister,” Abdullah Abdullah, now Afghanistan’s top opposition leader, said in an interview with editors and reporters of The Washington Times.
“So it was during [Iranian] President [Mohammed] Khatami’s time, and President Khatami mentioned it to President Karzai, that ‘from my own office, I have a budget at my discretion. If you agree with it, I would like to give some money for your office.’ So it started that way.”
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My Comment: In the end .... after the West has spent hundred of billions and are long gone .... the Iranians with their investments of a few millions will have more sway and influence in Afghanistan than we will. Does this sense .... not even close.
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then the logical conclusion: get out and let Iranians and taliban rule the roost...or...what?
In the end, Afghanistan belongs to the Afghan people. The Taliban will always be interwoven in this fabric of what is Afghanistan, whether we want it to be or not. As for the Iranians .... they are the big bully next door, and they are going nowhere for the foreseeable future. My suggestion .... and I have been saying this for a very long time .... we have overstayed our welcome, and it is time for us to leave.
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