Pot-addled hillbilly scoops major think tank by a year

Makes you wonder what Candace Rondeaux and her colleagues at the International Crisis Group are smoking.

You don't need a crystal ball to figure out that Karzai's days are numbered, and this blog has been saying so regularly almost since its inception.

If I were a betting man I'd wager that the crafty Karzai is going to be settled into his villa in Dubai even before the last ISAF troops leave at the end of 2014. "Transition" means handing Afghanistan back to the Taliban and a handful of warlords.

There hasn't been an informed observer worth reading who has said anything else for years. Karzai was never anything other than the West's puppet, as the massively fraudulent 2010 election convincingly demonstrated. The only people saying otherwise these days are Hillary Clinton's speechwriters.

Have the Nations of Virtue learned anything from their Afghan fiasco?