Ah Yes! Afghanistan.

So we were savagely attacked on 9-11 and the terrorists trained and planned in Afghanistan. We know that. We went over there and kicked them out, along with the extremists running the country. We pretty much installed Hamid Karzai as head of the country. We watched him rig the elections ever since, so that he wins every time and we decided it was OK because he was our man in that dangerous place. But recently he invited Iran's president in charge of loonybin, under the religious leaders of that country, to speak in the Afghan capital, in the Presidential Palace. Naturally, the talk was anti-American. We've asked Karzai and told him and warned him to clean up the corruption, but he's the corrupt one. Obama has just been there to, once again, telling him to change. Seems to me it's time to stop being polite and kick him out. Thomas Friedman, writing in the N.Y. Times this morning points out that we made similar mistakes in Viet-Nam, with a couple of leaders. We stick by our men in dangerous places, long after it's time to either kick them out or get out ourselves. Can we actually kick him out? Well, no, but we could stop propping them up. Without us he wouldn't last long. We all think that Afghanistan is a bit too important to our National Security to just get out. That doesn't leave much in the way of options, now does it. I'd like to see fewer of our young people dying over there and one way to help that happen would be to see the leadership of Afghanistan show us a little more respect. Just show a lot of affection and protection to someone else and a lot less to Karzai. I wonder how he'd react to that?