{"id":39497,"date":"2014-01-28T11:22:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T16:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39497"},"modified":"2014-01-28T11:23:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T16:23:32","slug":"ambassador-to-afghanistan-relations-strained-but-not-irrepairable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39497","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador to Afghanistan; relations strained but not irreparable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US ambassador to Afghanistan is wearing rose-colored glasses, apparently. He thinks that strained relations with the Taliban&#8217;s chief mouthpiece, Hamid Karzai aren&#8217;t beyond repair, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us-ambassador-relationship-with-kabul-strained-but-not-too-late-to-repair-1.264398\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> \u201cThe president (Karzai) has legitimate concerns that he position his country in the best way possible going forward, and I understand and accept that,\u201d Ambassador James Cunningham told journalists in Kabul on Monday. \u201cI don\u2019t think he\u2019s going about it in the right way, but he has to make these decisions, and we\u2019ll try to adapt to them as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In some ways the long-troubled relationship between Karzai and the American government has never been more frayed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, we could repair relations with the Karzai government by pulling our security detail off of him and beating feet for the exits, while freezing his foreign assets and enforcing a 100% No-Fly Zone over the country, then you&#8217;d see the little weasel come crawling. Let him have to depend on his own people for his ability to continue wasting my air and see how legitimate his concerns become. After the elections, he can move in with those prisoners he plans on releasing, we&#8217;ll see how soundly he sleeps.<\/p>\n<p>Coddling the little peckerwood certainly isn&#8217;t working, so I don&#8217;t see a benefit of continuing to do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US ambassador to Afghanistan is wearing rose-colored glasses, apparently. He thinks that strained relations with &hellip; <a title=\"Ambassador to Afghanistan; relations strained but not irreparable\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39497\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ambassador to Afghanistan; relations strained but not irreparable<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}