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...Signed off each newscast by shouting "Stay perky, America!" B) Referred to the Taliban as "al-Qaeda's best friends" C) Co-hosted a fish-and-chips cooking segment with Tony Blair D) Read "The revolution will not be televised" from a teleprompter hacked by Dan Rather...
...news is bad. The two men retreat into a back room, where Saleh tells him that a suicide bombing near the U.S. embassy, about a mile away, has killed two U.S. soldiers and 14 Afghans. It is the worst attack in the capital since the fall of the Taliban five years before, and for a moment, Karzai becomes grim. "Afghanistan has been going through this suffering for a long time," he says, "and you get very angry. Each time you get angrier." So how does he cope when every day seems to bring more tragedy? Karzai sighs. "We're used...
Since becoming Afghan leader nearly five years ago, Karzai has been the face, voice and guiding spirit of the new Afghanistan, an urbane antidote to the depraved rule of the Taliban. In 2004, bolstered by billions of dollars in Western aid and the firepower of 18,000 U.S. troops, Karzai won Afghanistan's first presidential election in a half-century. Since then, nothing has gone right. Taliban guerrillas have overrun swaths of territory in the south, sparking a battle for control with NATO forces that has left 55 Western troops dead in five weeks. Squabbles between Western military commanders...
...first-time visitor to Kabul is struck by the relative normality of the place, the absence of the barbed wire, blast walls and paranoia that have become familiar in Baghdad. The roads bustle with traffic--the number of cars in Kabul has tripled since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Garish new building projects loom over some of Kabul's oldest, poorest slums, dramatizing the extent to which the country is beginning to emerge from decades of underdevelopment. A late-afternoon walk through Shar-i-Naw Park offers a glimpse of the country's transformation: while Afghan boys play...
...democratic, prosperous Afghanistan, keeping and moving along with the values and history and traditions that we have. Now this vision has enemies, the enemies are those who are extremists, religious extremists, trained outside, equipped outside, motivated outside. Call it al-Qaeda, call it terrorism, call it Taliban or a combination of all of them. Those are the forces that are hurting America, or who are hurting us in Afghanistan. Those are the forces that will hurt you in any other part of the world. And that is what we should be fighting together. And that is where all the allies...