Now along comes outgoing U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Elkenberry. On being rebuked by Afghan "president" Hamid Karzai for our decade of destruction there, Karl spilled the beans in a whiny "ugly American" speech:
http://cnsnews.cloud.clearpathhosting.com/news/article/us-ambassador-rebukes-karzai-hurtful-ina
Without mentioning Karzai by name, Eikenberry took aim Sunday at the increasingly harsh anti-coalition rhetoric emanating from the president, calling it “hurtful and inappropriate.” The ambassador, who will leave his post over the summer, made the remarks at the end of a speech on the future of U.S.-Afghan relations, delivered to several hundred students at Herat University.
“When Americans, who are serving in your country at great cost in terms of lives and treasure, when they hear themselves compared with occupiers, told that they’re only here to advance their own interest, and likened to the brutal enemies of the Afghan people, my people in turn are filled with confusion and they grow weary of our effort here,” Eikenberry said.
“Mothers and fathers of fallen soldiers, spouses of soldiers who have lost arms and legs, children of those who’ve lost their lives in this country – they ask themselves about the meaning of their loved one’s sacrifice,” he continued. “I have to tell you, when I hear some of your leaders call us occupiers, I cannot look at these mourning parents, these mourning spouses, these mourning children, and give them any kind of comforting reply.”
Eikenberry conceded that that the “learning curve has been steep” in what is a “complex” situation. “But – in spite of our mistakes – we are a good people whose aim is to help improve our mutual security by strengthening your government, army and police, and economy.”
He went on to list some of the accomplishments, including the building of schools, clinics, roads, power stations, investment in educational training and in the agricultural field, promoting trade and reviving culture, music and sport.
“Yet, when we hear ourselves being called occupiers and worse, our pride is offended and we begin to lose our inspiration to carry on,” he told the Herat University students.
“At the point your leaders believe that we are doing more harm than good, when we reach a point that we feel our soldiers and civilians are being asked to sacrifice without a just cause, and our generous aid programs dismissed as totally ineffective and the source of all corruption … especially at a time our economy is suffering and our needs are not being met, the American people will ask for our forces to come home.”
Emphasis added. Drudgereport.com's hyperlinked summary of this article reads US to Karzai: Don't Call Us Occupiers When We're Dying for Your Country, and I think those last five words put in plain English everything Elkenberry tried so hard to dance around. (That would be a lie, too, if he'd said it, but let's at least try to play along -- saves brain cells.) Clearly, the fool is berating Karzai for not being a happier mistress or a more ecstatic rape victim. What could possibly be more embarrassing than this poorly-scripted two-man show for a supposedly free, noble country? The USA, I mean.
Karzai is apparently a justly hated Zionist stooge; Wikipedia has it that "The United States helped put him in office in late 2001 to lead his nation". (Wasn't that NICE of us. We are a very NICE country.) How much longer do you suppose it will take for Washington to re-read its entirely domestic job description and "fix America first"?
* Another Karl? Where did all the Carls go?/\/.
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