The Obama-Karzai Meeting: But Who Really Gets to Decide Afghanistan’s Future -- Tony Karon, Time
Presidents Barack Obama and Hamid Karzai meet at the White House Friday to discuss the future of Afghanistan beyond the 2014 U.S. troop withdrawal. But neither man will have the last word over the fate of that beleaguered country beyond next year.
Karzai, for his part, is constitutionally forbidden from seeking reelection when his term expires in 2014. And even if he were to manipulate the political system in order to elevate a proxy figure to rule on his behalf — which his critics suspect he plans to do — his power, limited as it is, has always depended on the presence of tens of thousands of Western troops to fight off his Taliban foes.
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