“I MUST BE GOING!”

4/28/11

Yesterday (i.e., Wednesday, 4/27/11), the Wall Street Journal reported that Pakistan is urging the thug we installed in Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai (who, incidentally, might have a brighter future if he moved to the 50th Ward in Chicago) to “dump the U.S.” in favor of Pakistan and China. Juxtapose that with the report in today’s (i.e., Thursday, 4/28/11’s) Journal that an Afghan Air Force Officer opened fire on American forces at the Kabul airport, killing eight of our soldiers. As the Journal further reports

“Shootings by Afghans among the soldiers and police, some of them Taliban infiltrators, are becoming a leading cause of death for U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan. This month, there have been six attacks by uniformed Afghans inside military bases and facilities across the country.” (Emphasis mine)

It sounds like Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who delivered the advice to Mr. Karzai to “dump” us, has a GREAT idea. Please, Mr. Karzai, bite the hand that fed you, indeed, poke at the womb that created you—PLEASE dump us! Then we can go home and put this most salient manifestation of the disastrous Bush/Obama exercise in nation building as foreign policy behind us.

As we leave, though, we should take the time to inform Mr. Karzai and his new puppeteers that if an attack on our shores or our interests (narrowly defined this time) should originate in Afghanistan, we will be back…but not for long and not to nation build.