But … but … but … President Obama gave that dandy speech in Cairo. He promised that relations with the Muslim world would be cozier than Barney Frank in a bathhouse. And we’re pretty sure he said he’d usher in an era of dancing girls for us and dancing boys for the Afghanis.
Hmmm. If that’s the case, then why is Afghan President Hamid Karzai pining away for the good ol’ days of the Bush administration?
The Huffington Post has the details of Hamid’s heartbreak:
Longing for the early years of the Bush administration, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been consumed by anti-U.S. conspiracy theories, convinced American officials are now working against him, according to a diplomatic cable from the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan.
The cable was sent in July 2009, which would become the deadliest month for foreign troops since the 2001 invasion. The surge in casualties resulted from an offensive to oust the Taliban in opium-rich Helmand Province, as well as the increasing power of roadside bombs. On July 7, when Amb. Karl Eikenberry met with Karzai, the Afghan president was looking backward rather than forward, wistfully longing for the early days of the Bush administration, which he referred to as a “golden age.”
“Karzai then returned to a familiar theme, his wish for Afghan-U.S. relations to recover the spirit of 2002-04 — a period Karzai sees as a ‘golden age’ in the relationship,” wrote Eikenberry in a July 16 cable obtained by WikiLeaks and published by The New York Times. “He would like for U.S. forces to again be able to drive their humvees through villages, greeted warmly by villagers who would shout, ‘Good morning, Sergeant Thompson.’ Karzai claimed, as he has many times, that his concern over the erosion of public trust in the U.S. was a driving factor in his increasingly strident criticism regarding civilian casualties, night raids and detentions.”
But … but … but … how can this be? Muslims hated Bush. They hated America. They hated the Great Satan worse than anything but Israel.
Why if we didn’t know better we might think the media had misled us.
Source: Huffingon Post
This post was last modified on January 5, 2011
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I seriously don't know how to feel about this story... Does it mean that it was easier to be corrupt back then than now? Or he truly just means that security for his country and inter country communications was better?
Considering his ways and his track record I am taking what he is saying with a grain of salt.
The media lied and soldiers died. I sort of feel for Hamid but we Americans need to realize that elections have conseqences...all that hope and change you know. Obuttmunch feels that anybody put into office under the Bush administration can't be good, so let's just hang him out to dry?