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Afghan President Hamid Karzai Slams U.S. Foreign Policy in Farewell Speech
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
You’ve got to hand it to the brain surgeons running America’s foreign policy. They possess an uncanny ability to seamlessly forge alliances, break alliances and turn former allies into existential enemies, while simultaneously demonizing regimes, making amends with demonized regimes, and then quickly forming alliances with the same bitter enemies.
Friends become enemies and enemies become friends in the blink of an eye. This is what happens when a global empire possesses no real foreign policy other than the pursuit of economic opportunities for mega corporations and the military-industrial complex. The result is perpetual war, countless dead and injured young men and women, and billions of riches for a small and ruthless cadre of oligarchs. This is American foreign policy and those are its results.
Of course, I’m not the only one to notice the repercussions of America’s for profit foreign policy. Former U.S. darling and outgoing Afghan President Hamid Karzai slammed American foreign policy in his farewell speech earlier today. Here are excerpts from New York Times’ coverage:
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s departing president, Hamid Karzai, used his final speech to his cabinet and senior staff members to make a bitter swipe at the United States and some of its Western allies on Tuesday, blaming them for many of the country’s ongoing problems.
“America did not want peace for Afghanistan, because it had its own agendas and goals here,” he said. “I have always said this: that if America and Pakistan want peace, it is possible to bring peace to Afghanistan.”
“I want to thank those countries who genuinely supported us. Western countries had their personal interest, the Western countries and the United States had their own personal goal,” Mr. Karzai said.
“I believe the stability of Afghanistan is directly related to United States and Pakistan,” Mr. Karzai said. “If the United States and Pakistan want, peace can be brought to Afghanistan because it is not our war and there is no fight among the Afghans. It is not a combat among the people living in this soil. This war is for the personal interest of foreign policies and this is fight of outsiders in which Afghans are sacrificed.”
Jeremy Scahill summarized U.S. foreign policy perfectly in a Tweet earlier today in reference to the oligarchy finally getting its Syria war after multiple attempts over the past several years:
Operation Keep That War Industry Paid
— jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) September 23, 2014
Indeed. Eisenhower warned Americans more than half a century ago and we didn’t listen. Karzai is warning his countrymen now. Will they heed the call?
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And don't forget, it was all done for their own good too.
Looks like it's back to farming poppies.
Yeah, Karzai's brother was big into that....or so I heard..
Karzai - filthy crook though he is - speaks the truth on this.
Hamid Karzai and his brother ran a deli in Maryland after being a Mujahedeen alongside Osama Bin Laden.
pizza parlour i was told.
Ever eaten Pizza during a Palio at Sienna?
Its a bit like Afghan Buzkashi !
it didn't stop him from taking billions of us taxpayer dollars. he is an ineffective ass in a stupid hat.
Hey, you got to hand it to the guy- he managed to be Prez, avoid assassination, serve out his term, get rich, and again, still be upright when it was all over.
There is probably no-one a slimy fuck like this wouldn't screw over in order to stay alive, and twice as many in order to get rich. This is one devious and ruthless bastard.
Why is it no-one can speak the truth until they are retired?
He's simply patching the holes before the shiny new paint job - all part of the process
...USSA's MIC believe they will regain World dominance thru attrition.
Four words describe who was there & what the Pure Evil Psychopaths where there for & after.
The CIA / Heroin / Lithium.
I find it absolutely amazing this guy is still alive. Seriously.
I like and admire him, plus he got away with the loot, too.
Hope they dont have nail guns in Switzerland or to wherever he beats feet with the billions of US dollars he stole....
Karzai, a fucking useful idiot. You make a deal with the devil, then don't bitch about catching a pitchfork in the asshole.
Lockheed pensions gotta get paid somehow.
And since the serfs stopped stuffing their pieholes with debt at an exponential rate, someone has to step up to the plate.
pods
Hamid is a crook and whore and should be treated as such.
Don't forget his role as a leading protector of Narcotraffickers
http://www.theguardian.com/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/219677?guni=Article:in%20body%20link
Give him a break. Only a crook would have been offered the job and only a whore would have accepted.
wow that might be comment of the month, kudos.
Another barking on the way out.
One would think that nations would have it fgured out by now that the real owners of America don't and never did want peace. It has always been about creating as much turmoil as possible and then profiting from it. What amazes me is how other nations keep falling for it.
And about stopping the Taliban from from destroying the poppy fields.........and profiting from that too.
the taliban are poppy growers, in case you didnt know that.... they sell the stuff to the CIA / Mossad, and that is a major source of their funding. Been that way since the soviet invasion.
Facts are the Taliban had almost eliminated opium production during their tenure. You are absolutely wrong. Once America "liberated" the country, the warlords returned to poppy farming big time.
Re those other nations: Their bankers make out too.
It's because new generations of naive people, who are not taught how to spot a fraud by their parents, and instead indoctrinrated in the school/media/news complex (with the consent of their parents), keep coming along and falling for it. Those people have to live through it once to see the truth.....and then a new generation of people come along.
If people lived longer, vibrant lives, this could never happen and we would have, world peace as the fraud would be routinely called out.
"So goodbye yellowbrick road!
Back to the horny black toads...
Everything that you want to know about US and NATO involvement in Afghanistan is explained by heroin:
Heroin production in Afghanistan increased 40 times since NATO began its ‘War on Terror’ in 2001, the head of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service stated, adding that more than 1million people have died from Afghan heroin since then.
“Afghan heroin has killed more than 1 million people worldwide since the ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’ began and over a trillion dollars has been invested into transnational organized crime from drug sales,”Viktor Ivanov said at the conference on the drug situation in Afghanistan.
Ivanov stressed that the main factor of instability in the war-torn country remains the prosperous heroin industry.
http://rt.com/news/afghanistan-heroin-production-increased-266/
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
--Shakespeare
Never trust an asshole in a velvet cape.
--Pupdog1
Never trust a man in a tunic.
~Will from Land of the Lost.
Never look a gifthorse in the mouth.
Four Ways to Discipline the Unruly Afghan Child:
1)
water board them until they Say, “Uncle (Sam);” [although if they groan “George Bush, Cheney or Gonzales” that’s close enough];
2)
confiscate their overseas multi-million mansions on Lake Geneva;
3)
advise them there’ll be no 30 Virgins waiting for them in the after life; and,
4)
stop the flow of fat bribes to their schweiz bank accounts unless they cooperate with Uncle Sam.
A child has a father and that father of this "serpent's tooth"--according to your very own logic-- is US foreign policy; aka PAx Americana over a span of fifty years, since Eisenhower's MIC warning.
So tell us what Shakespeare has to say about the warmongering, scheming, paranoid father :
Could it then be : A horse a horse, my Kingdom for a horse! (said by a King whose kingdom was sodden with treachery, having betrayed his brother's sons in the Tower); aka sacrificed public morality for personal interest.
That is the gist of this post above that reminds us of who pulleth the puppet strings all over the world.
The least he could do is kiss our ass - is that your drift?
This guy just spoke good English....he was not a leader and could not handle the job....but I am sure he stole enough to be Okay for the rest of his life...and I bet its in England or somewhere
If he comes out OK, I don't blame him . Being a stooge for the West, knowing how deep their hypocrisy and corruption really are, must have been tough. We must grieve for the hundreds of thousands who have died for our dream of global dominance. Meanwhile we continue to remodel the world to our advantage while concocting romantic tales of demons and heros to beguile the masses while their moneyand lives are snatched away.
Karzai is one of the most corrupt politicians in history - even by third world standards. His cousins have been snapping up the most expensive properties in Dubai for years. He will grab his parachute and live in filthy luxury for years to come. All financed by the American taxpayer. Americans are terminally stupid.
He's hardly one of the most corrupt politicians in History... compare him to the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfelt sindicate or any of the European Bankster stooges.
Notwithstanding his corruption, his remarks should not be discounted on that basis alone, especially by his corrupters.
The American form of corruption is less "blatant". :)
This from a guy who worked for the Unocal petroleum corporation.
he's a piece of shit.
What does Karzai think of Canadians? We lost 100+ men and women trying to ensure girls could go to school. Personally I think that was a mistake.
LOL
If only we want to war for girls, dress codes, democracy etc.. Unfortunately only the media indoctrinated believe anything like that. Every war has a story like that, and if the enemy has done no wrong, then an incident must be staged.
Karzhai clearly understands the real reasons for US involvement and has so stated.
So no pipeline then?
Let me finish your thought TIS
Looks like "Mr. UNOCAL"'s properties in Monaco and London just got sold to some wealthy dude with connections to Bandar "Bush"!...
If I had any advice for him he should pack quietly and find himself a nice underground condo for retirement with plenty of sinks and showers to wash the blood off those hands... Cause that's all he's going to be able to afford at this point in his late career.
Can't live with 'em Can't live without 'em!
Incidentally, "Bandar" means monkey in Urdu.
Incidentally, "Bandar" means monkey in Urdu.
Boy and how! Mommy and Daddy called it correctly when that fucking "Mountain back" was born!!!
The CIA and State Dept. are run by white-shoe, Ivy-league privileged, clueless wing-nuts who have no productive skills other than to promote the OSS's agenda which should have been deep-sixed after the end of WWII - by the way, WWI has never ended, it just keeps rearing it's ugly head in new and disguised ways - you can thank the world's central bankers for that mess...
FIAT
You forgot the nice bank on Constitution Avenue that made that charter of that "Leg breaker" operation and those jobs to that Ivy-league swill possible!
True also the Crimean War of 1893 is still going strong I see and for the same ostensible and underlying real reasons. Why do I bother? Why did I expect better?
But but Obama was going to solve this mess as a kick-ass commander in chief, he said so in 2008...ah, the irony and who can forget those Grecian columns.....spectacle for the masses indeed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH6cKND46Fo
So the political arm of a druglord mafia family is retiring and takes the opportunity to thank those whose pockets he picked...
Nice guy. This is the hero that Mike Krieger wants to emulate.
He'll soon be a refugee somewhere. Some Taliban leader will take over the country.
To turn the subjects of the US into their national debt slaves has always been the goal.
He's a duplicitous douche bag, but I always liked his snappy little hat. Stay out of single engine planes now, Hamid.
“America did not want peace for Afghanistan, because it had its own agendas and goals here,”
No Shit Sherlock. Do you really think the US or anybody else cares about your backward country?
Hopefully ISIS cuts this fucking puke's head off soon.
RICE / KARZAI in 2016 BUMPER STICKERS (200 for $150)
I don't think Afghanistan has been very profitable. We have lost soldiers and paid millions. Pakistan is the problem. The Paki secret police, SIS is sponsoring terrorism in the region.
Profits from poppies? We were paying them not to grow poppies. Oil? Where? Our foreign policy is what has Karzai pissed off. We coddle the Paki who send in the terrorists.
Well, bye.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReYfu5E-hOE
mission accomplished bitches!.
we fuck you, lebowsky.
Keep your friend close and Keep your ENEMY closer
New York, Paris or London for retirement?
Talking about dictators, the Telemundo USA channel is airing "El Chivo" a telenovela based on Mario Vargas Llosa's novel "La fiesta del chivo" which deals with the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic in the 1930's. The telenovela's first episode was aired last night at 10pm Pacific Time. It was produced by RTI Colombia and Televisa.
The book is titled "The Feast of the Goat" in English, with Trujillo nicknamed el chivo or the goat.
A memorable scene from the first episode shortly after Trujillo had carried out his coup: Sir, the Americans are on the phone. Trujillo smiles and turns to an aide and says tell the news organizations to say that the Americans support his regime.
Mario Vargas Llosa is very talented and intelligent. He can craft very elegant stories and has great writing ability. Like our dear leader Obama, he was acceptable to the elites and was awarded a Nobel prize (Literature).
He is also a whore for sale, a neoliberal political animal, and an abominable human being.
Wait, Karzai is leaving? That cannot be right. What about the promised show of his head stuck on a pole when Taliban takes over? Are people of religion of peace going to let him retire in Zurich to spent more time with bizillions US funnelled to Afghanistan? Mudjahideens these days aren't what they used to be...