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Khalilzad (R), not Karzai, is the chief executive of Afghanistan, according to NY Times
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WASHINGTON,
April 17 (IslamOnline.net) – Hamid Karzai may be Afghanistan's
President, but the United States Ambassador in Kabul, Zalmay M.
Khalilzad, is actually the one running the country, reported a leading
American newspaper on Saturday, April 17.
"The
genial Mr. Karzai may be Afghanistan's president, but the affable, ambitious Mr. Khalilzad often seems
more like its chief executive. With his command of both details and
American largesse, the Afghan-born envoy has created an alternate seat
of power since his arrival on Thanksgiving," said the New York
Times.
Shedding
light on Khalilzad's background, the paper said: "As a State
Department and Pentagon official and at the Rand Corporation, he
advocated pre-emptive action against so-called rogue states like
Iraq.
"Now
he is formulating — on the ground, and on the fly — that
doctrine's previously neglected bookend: how to fill the void those
governments leave behind. And as the United States struggles to get it right, policy makers in
Washington are closely watching Mr. Khalilzad, an academic and policy
planner."
However,
there seems to be no set strategies or agreed upon plans the U.S.
administration follows as far as the aftermath of its pre-emptive
attacks are concerned.
"In
many ways we're experimenting," Mr. Khalilzad admitted, according
to the American daily.
One
year after its tanks rolled into Iraq's capital, the U.S. is still struggling to restore minimum safety and security to a
country it invaded under the logo "Iraqi Freedom Operation".
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