{"id":516224,"date":"2010-04-05T11:58:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T15:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=34329"},"modified":"2010-04-05T11:58:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T15:58:13","slug":"puppet-regime-slams-puppet-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/516224","title":{"rendered":"Puppet Regime Slams Puppet Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Shoemaker<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/05\/world\/asia\/05karzai.html?hp\" ><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a> reported today that over the weekend, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai stepped up his anti-Western rhetoric in a speech to roughly 60 members of Parliament, mostly his supporters.&nbsp; According to one member Mr. Karzai said, &#8220;If you and the international community pressure me more, I swear that I am going to join the Taliban.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday, Karzai publicly accused the West and the United Nations of perpetrating fraud against him in the recent Presidential elections.&nbsp; The outcome of the election resulted in Karzai securing another 5-year term.<\/p>\n<p>The US and Nato propping up an unstable regime, in an unstable, war-torn, impoverished, tribal region will never result in a &#8220;secure&#8221;, centralized, pro-western state as the Western powers would like to see. Nation-building is foolishness in and of itself and attempting it in a country such as Afghanistan is madness.<\/p>\n<p>Almost a decade after the war began we are no closer to seeing &#8220;democracy&#8221; emerge in Afghanistan.&nbsp; There are fewer than 100 al-Qaeda in the country and the &#8220;Taliban&#8221; that exists there today is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=33312\" >not even the same group<\/a> that was around in 2001.&nbsp; How many more lives must be sacrificed to save face on an impossible mission?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Shoemaker The New York Times reported today that over the weekend, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai stepped up his anti-Western rhetoric in a speech to roughly 60 members of Parliament, mostly his supporters.&nbsp; According to one member Mr. Karzai said, &#8220;If you and the international community pressure me more, I swear that I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516224","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\/3999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}