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[sabrina 1]

post. You're slipping.

This is one of the first good things Karzai has done and I hope he stands by it. Of course he may end up dead. His first mistake was thinking that he could trust America to do good for his country while they built their pipe-line and took over and restarted the drug trade.

He learned quickly and saw his countrymen murdered and tortrued and for years has been demanding an end to the killing of civilians.

He went from an oilman thinking he could serve two masters, to a man, whose father was murdered in Afghanistan, who has come to realize that you have to make a choice.

Once he developed a conscience about the killing of his fellow Afghans, it was inevitable that he would be vilified by the U.S.

I actually feel sorry for him now. He should have known better when he signed a deal with the U.S. He should have known that if he ever put his fellow countrymen before the greedy, power-hungry goals of the West, he would be ignored, and smeared and now his own people blame him for participating in the destruction of their country.

He turned out not to be a perfect puppet after all. Seeing all those dead women and children was hard to bear and he spoke up for them. Bush ignored him, and now following in those illustrious footprints, Obama is about to do the same.

I hope he survives. But I have a feeling there is another puppet waiting in the wings in case he refuses to allow yet another slaughter of his countrymen.