Walking Softly
The big stick has been put aside in the interests of unanimity.
Hamid Karzai is no bargain, but the United States in its great wisdom sees him as the better portion of the evil potentially inherent in setting him aside for a replacement who might not be as complicit as he with U.S. and NATO designs. He may be a corrupt, incapable and irritating partner, but he is their corrupt, incapable and irritating partner.
Who, for the most part, is fairly accommodating to instructions, despite on occasion raising his own head in complaint, and succumbing to the plaints of fundamentalist Islamists.
Peter Galbraith, second in command of the UN Afghan mission, simply inherited too much of his celebrated father's famous rectitude. The outright depth of deceptions employed during the election proceedings for the Aghan presidential elections simply concerned him too much, as a staunch liberal democrat.
This was no mere finagling that he witnessed, but a wholesale butchering of the values inherent in democratic electoral proceedings; the level of fraud was beyond acceptance.
And when he confronted President Karzai with his feelings, urging the man to agree to a run-off vote, it was President Karzai's turn to be morally, mortally affronted. That his right to rule might be questioned by this functionary of the UN was simply too much to take, and the two men proceeded to loathe one another's values.
Mr. Galbraith, President Karzai's moral turpitude, and President Karzai, Mr. Galbraith's unacceptable gall in presuming to question the authority of the president of Afghanistan.
Enter the accommodating mission head, Kai Eide, who himself had some disagreement with the righteous affront taken by his second in command. And who did Secretary General Ban Ki-moon accommodate in this little spat? Well, not exactly on his own.
It was, after all, the decision of the American administration, relayed to both Mr. Ban and Mr. Karzai, that the U.S. was prepared, however reluctantly, to admit that Mr. Karzai had received the bulk of the votes, irregularities aside. Thus putting the stamp of legitimacy on the illegitimate.
And just by the way, approving the dismissal by the UN Secretary General of the upright, highly ethical and most unfortunate Mr. Galbraith.
Hamid Karzai is no bargain, but the United States in its great wisdom sees him as the better portion of the evil potentially inherent in setting him aside for a replacement who might not be as complicit as he with U.S. and NATO designs. He may be a corrupt, incapable and irritating partner, but he is their corrupt, incapable and irritating partner.
Who, for the most part, is fairly accommodating to instructions, despite on occasion raising his own head in complaint, and succumbing to the plaints of fundamentalist Islamists.
Peter Galbraith, second in command of the UN Afghan mission, simply inherited too much of his celebrated father's famous rectitude. The outright depth of deceptions employed during the election proceedings for the Aghan presidential elections simply concerned him too much, as a staunch liberal democrat.
This was no mere finagling that he witnessed, but a wholesale butchering of the values inherent in democratic electoral proceedings; the level of fraud was beyond acceptance.
And when he confronted President Karzai with his feelings, urging the man to agree to a run-off vote, it was President Karzai's turn to be morally, mortally affronted. That his right to rule might be questioned by this functionary of the UN was simply too much to take, and the two men proceeded to loathe one another's values.
Mr. Galbraith, President Karzai's moral turpitude, and President Karzai, Mr. Galbraith's unacceptable gall in presuming to question the authority of the president of Afghanistan.
Enter the accommodating mission head, Kai Eide, who himself had some disagreement with the righteous affront taken by his second in command. And who did Secretary General Ban Ki-moon accommodate in this little spat? Well, not exactly on his own.
It was, after all, the decision of the American administration, relayed to both Mr. Ban and Mr. Karzai, that the U.S. was prepared, however reluctantly, to admit that Mr. Karzai had received the bulk of the votes, irregularities aside. Thus putting the stamp of legitimacy on the illegitimate.
And just by the way, approving the dismissal by the UN Secretary General of the upright, highly ethical and most unfortunate Mr. Galbraith.
Labels: Particularities, United Nations, United States
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