{"id":493037,"date":"2010-03-31T10:38:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=81000"},"modified":"2010-03-31T10:38:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:38:56","slug":"ahmed-wali-karzai-staying-put","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/493037","title":{"rendered":"Ahmed Wali Karzai, Staying Put"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No sooner did the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/30\/AR2010033004090.html?hpid=topnews\">Post speculate<\/a> about the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/80976\/threatening-karzais-brother-planning-a-kandahar-operation-in-the-dark\">future of CIA asset\/drug-deal facilitator\/quasi-warlord\/Kandahar official\/presidential brother Ahmed Wali Karzai<\/a> than Dexter Filkins of The New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/31\/world\/asia\/31karzai.html?hp\">reports<\/a> that no one is really going to bother trying to oust an unmovable political object. And since that&#8217;s the case, Filkins collects a lot of look-on-the-bright-side quotes. Such as:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI absolutely think he can help us with reintegration,\u201d the NATO officer said, referring to the American-backed program to coax fighters away from the insurgency.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He knows who to talk to!<span id=\"more-81000\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He is also one of the area\u2019s biggest entrepreneurs, with business and real estate ventures across southern Afghanistan. \u201cOne thing, he is a successful businessman,\u201d the senior NATO official said. \u201cHe can create jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I have to tip my hat to the cynicism of that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No sooner did the Post speculate about the future of CIA asset\/drug-deal facilitator\/quasi-warlord\/Kandahar official\/presidential brother Ahmed Wali Karzai than Dexter Filkins of The New York Times reports that no one is really going to bother trying to oust an unmovable political object. And since that&#8217;s the case, Filkins collects a lot of look-on-the-bright-side quotes. Such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}