The scent of Hillary's perfume still hung in the air of Karzai's presidential palace last week when Karzai dropped a bombshell. In the event of an American attack on Pakistan, he told the world, Afghanistan would back up the Pakis.
This pronouncement was of course more important as symbolic gesture than serious threat. It would be like Monaco promising to back up France in the event of an attack by Germany. Not that big a deal in strategic terms, but as a symbolic gesture this cuts deep.
After all, this is the guy we put in power. This is the guy we steadfastly stood behind as he stole two elections. This is the guy whose country we've been shovelling a hundred million dollars a week into for the last ten years while cops and teachers in America get lay off notices, while bridges and hydro pylons collapse from neglect, while far too many veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan are jobless and homeless.
It truly is shocking to see what kind of friends a trillion bucks buys you these days.
On the other hand, maybe he's had a look around and figured out the fickle nature of our "friendship". Recent history is littered with the corpses of Uncle Sam's Frankesteins who outlived their usefullness. One day it's all palsy-walsy buddy-buddy, next day there's a 500 pound Pavemaster IV coming through the ceiling of the palace, courtesy of the USAF. Sadam, Osama, Gaddafi, Noriega, Marcos...
Wonder if our "friends" in Tel Aviv have noticed the pattern?
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