Commentary: Karzai is Upset...It's All OUR Fault...Again

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday rejected U.S. criticisms of his antidrug efforts, called international help in the fight "half-hearted," and demanded justice for prisoners abused by U.S. troops.

Karzai, a staunch ally in the U.S.-led war against terrorism, said he will repeat his concern and anger over the prison abuses to the U.S. government and wants those responsible to be held accountable in a public trial.

"I will do this again. This is simply, simply not acceptable. We are angry about this. We want justice, we want the people responsible for this sort of brutal behavior punished and tried and made public," Karzai said on CNN.

You know, I've had it. I've had it with these people and their ungrateful bullshit. When will the Muslim world understand that it is their adherence to a 7th century belief system rooted in death, vengeance, and conquest that is their problem? Give the country back to them, and give them what they want. Let's see how long it takes the Taliban to regain power. By the way, nobody said diddly shit when the Taliban took power in Afghanistan and destroyed the Buddhist temples, so, to me, this is all sound and fury signifying nothing.

This asshat Karzai (whom I used to admire), even if he is under some political pressure from within his own ranks, apparently has forgotten what side of the bread gets buttered and who butters it. He even has the balls to blame everybody else for the rise in opium poppy production and heroin trade since his country was freed:

"What international money and creation of forces for the destruction of poppies was concerned, it was ineffective and delayed and half-hearted," Karzai said.

"We have done our job. Now the international community must do its job, period," he said.

And this French fuck from the UN wants to talk about what cannot be tolerated:

Jean Arnault, special representative of U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan in Afghanistan, said on Sunday the reported abuse was unacceptable and an affront to everything the international community stood for.

"The gravity of these abuses calls for the punishment of all those involved in such inexcusable crimes, as demanded by President Karzai," Arnault said in a statement.

An "affront to everything the international community stands for?" He's joking, right? This is the same UN that has just confirmed Zimbabwe to a third term on the Human Rights Council; the same UN that had Libya at the head of that same Council; the same UN that took everything good that we did in Somalia and, upon assuming control of the region, let it go right to shit again; the same UN that stood by while hundreds of thousands were slaughtered in Rwanda and is allowing the same to happen now in the Sudan; the same UN that has allowed nearly 70 Serbian Orthodox Churches in Kosovo to be reduced to rubble by the Albanian Muslims under their watchful eye. Yeah, I'm really impressed with anything the UN has to say.

Mesaage to Jean: Fuck you and the French poodle you rode in on, pal.

No matter what the US does, it will never be good enough, so why bother? Oh yes, Karzai acknowledges that it's just a few bad apples and this alleged abuse should not reflect on the US as a whole, but who is he trying to kid? The US has become the big chunk of cheese for every little rat country to peck away at, piece by piece.

Methinks it's time to kill some rats.

**UPDATE** Well, well, it appears Karzai DOES know what side of the bread gets buttered and who butters it. This is quite a different tune than what he sang yesterday:

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush and Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai signed a "strategic partnership" enabling long-term US involvement in Afghanistan's security as well as reconstruction.

"It's a partnership we have been working on for quite a while," Bush told reporters with Karzai by his side after their meeting at the White House.

Karzai also said that Afghanistan, the world's largest opium producer, hoped to slash poppy production by up to 30 percent this year by promoting alternative crops.

"Now if this trend continues, we'll have no poppies, hopefully, in Afghanistan in another five or six years," he said.

"That's a promise we have given to the world and to the Afghan people, and that's a promise that we will deliver on. Hold us accountable on that," he said.

I guess the tune changes depending on the audience.