Karzai Need For To Drive Home With

Screw you Hamid!

I could, and should, stop the post right there...but...in true Pontificate fashion, I won't, or rather, I should say that I can't.

Which reminds me, they started the Conclave today to pick a new Pontiff.  I, for one, am amazed at the amount of coverage that the networks are giving this thing.  I understand that there are more than a few Catholics around the world but, Holy Cow, aren't there other things happening as well?  Like the War in Mali and North Korean lunacy and Global Warming and Paul Ryan's selfish budget.

You're pickin' a Pope.  Good for you.  Get on with it and let us know how it's workin' out fellas.  Light the fire, send the smoke, then we'll send the anchors and the crews to Rome and cover the announcement.  Until then..."Breaking News...!", etc.  Okay...?

But back to this post...  I could have stopped before I got going but, you could say that I'm addicted.

Just like the Afghan leader has been addicted to American military power, lo these eleven years, to hold onto his job and probably the millions he has, no doubt, reaped from our presence in his country.

Every once in a while you pick up the paper and read about something that President Karzai has said.  This time, during Chuck Hagel's first visit to the country since becoming Secretary of Defense, Karzai suggested that we are colluding with the Taliban to perpetuate instability in Afghanistan.

We have been fighting and dying in Afghanistan for over a decade now, first to root out Al Qaeda and their Taliban allies after 9-11.  And then the mission changed to one in which we were there to help Karzai stabilize his government and help in the training of his military so they could defend themselves and no longer use us as their protectors.

For Hamid Karzai to periodically slam us for a perceived wrong or to challenge our motives is to impugn our integrity and marginalize our contribution.

I will admit that I have no idea what the truth is about our involvement in Afghanistan any more than what the truth was about our involvement in Iraq.  Washington doesn't call me for advice.  Obama doesn't seek out my opinion when making policy.  Neither did Bush nor President Clinton.

We could have been conducting the War in Afghanistan for reasons that have nothing to do with the stated policy put forth by the Pentagon or The White House.

But the impression one gets is that we do the heavy lifting and Karzai complains that we haven't lifted enough.

It's like a friend asks to borrow your lawn mower and then whines about the fact that the blade isn't as sharp as he would like.

To that, I would say, again...screw you!  Get your own damned lawnmower and cut your own damned grass you ungrateful asshole!

And while you're at it harvest your own damned poppies and kill your own damned Taliban and defend yourself against your own damned Pakistani neighbors and protect your own damned self from whatever warlord-du-jour has you in his sights.

As they say in the 'Hood..."We out.  PEACE!"