Afghanistan President Hamid KarzaiFrom CQ Politics/Spytalk:
The grumbling about Afghan President Hamid Karzai has grown so loud you'd think the Obama administration has given up on him.
Indeed, you could almost hear the knees knocking in Karzai's embassy here when incoming Obama officials met privately during inauguration week with at least two Afghan politicians who would like to replace the president.
With the war going badly, criticism has grown of Karzai's seeming tolerance of endemic corruption in his government, which threatens to turn Afghanistan into a narco-state, if not grease the return of the Taliban to power.
Could his days be numbered?
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My Comment: Talk of disposing Karzai reminds me of Vietnam, and the coup against Ngo Dinh Diem. That did not end well.
The best thing to do is to let the people of Afghanistan decide. The Presidential elections at the end of this year may be flawed and disrupted, but that choice is far more preferable than having him disposed of by a junta of Afghan strongmen in favor of someone else.