{"id":535245,"date":"2010-04-20T08:41:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T12:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=82759"},"modified":"2010-04-20T08:41:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T12:41:56","slug":"holbrooke-turns-page-on-karzai-squabble-and-settles-the-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/535245","title":{"rendered":"Holbrooke Turns Page on Karzai Squabble (And Settles the Score)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration doesn&#8217;t want to fight with Afghan President Hamid Karzai anymore. Amb. Richard Holbrooke, the special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, said the U.S.&#8217;s relationship with the Afghan president is in &#8220;good shape.&#8221; That stuff about Karzai threatening to join the Taliban if he didn&#8217;t get to control an election monitor? In the past. (&#8220;The waters got roiled a little bit,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/04\/19\/AR2010041904502.html?hpid=moreheadlines\">Holbrooke said at a press briefing yesterday<\/a>.) Karzai will visit Washington from May 10 to 14 and soon afterward will hold a &#8220;peace jirga,&#8221; or national council seeking to establish the contours of a reconciliation offer to the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>Later yesterday, Holbrooke got in a shot at the United Nations&#8217; former envoy to Afghanistan, Kai Eide. Eide&#8217;s old deputy, the former U.S. ambassador (and Holbrooke ally) Peter Galbraith, <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/62301\/galbraith-gives-it-right-back-to-the-u-n\">accused Eide<\/a> of placing the U.N. mission in a quiescent position when Karzai committed widespread fraud in last year&#8217;s presidential election. After a screening of a forthcoming HBO documentary about Holbrooke&#8217;s friend Sergio Vieira de Mello, the revered U.N. diplomat killed in Iraq in 2003, Holbrooke told a panel discussion that he had recently come from a Kabul meeting that included Staffan de Mistura, Eide&#8217;s successor, whom he called &#8220;a substantial step forward&#8221; from his predecessor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration doesn&#8217;t want to fight with Afghan President Hamid Karzai anymore. Amb. Richard Holbrooke, the special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, said the U.S.&#8217;s relationship with the Afghan president is in &#8220;good shape.&#8221; That stuff about Karzai threatening to join the Taliban if he didn&#8217;t get to control an election monitor? In the [&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-535245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535245","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=535245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}