Making up with Karzai

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In March when President Obama paid a call on Afghan President Hamid Karzai, he was all impatience and disdain. Karzai was running a corrupt government, the upcoming elections were already looking fixed and the drug trafficking — well, it’s complicated. Obama wanted him to straighten up and act like a responsible ally, subject — whatever Karzai is these days.

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