Exhibit A:
[...]Ashraf Ghani, the most educated and Westernized of Afghanistan’s presidential candidates, is shaking up the campaign before Thursday’s election in unusual ways.Exhibit B:
Mr. Ghani’s national support is hard to gauge — one recent poll put it at just 4 percent — and he probably remains an outsider in the race, trailing Mr. Karzai and his main challenger, Abdullah Abdullah, both of whom have much larger power bases.Exhibit C:
Such is his experience, and his support in Washington, that Mr. Ghani is among the contenders mentioned to fill a strong executive position under the president that is being proposed by American officials to strengthen the government’s performance should Mr. Karzai win another term.Well, fortunately, to paraphrase a different arm of the entertainment-industrial complex, no Afghans were
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Let's see... Nope, no marginal remark on which I can seize and write about in forty or fifty comments.
In that case, I'd just like to say that it's sadly typical to see such moving of the goalposts. "We're going to win, it's going to be a landslide!" "It's going to be a tight one, but we have the edge!" "They stole it! We couldn't have won!" And then on to infighting, or talking about how this loss will really be educational, each according to his or her particular nature or habit.
The pushing of Ghani has been sickening. I watched Carville, who looks like something out of Vampire: The Masquerade, drawling about his chosen candidate for America's Next Top Satrap. It seems that democracy has indeed come to Afghanistan. I pity the bastards.
Our Man in Afghana, if you will.
I like to think that I shake things up in unusual ways by not having an audience too!
And by the way, does anyone remember how we used to talk about Karzai? The man was supposed to be Mandela in a silly hat. So much for that.
The Google fails me, but I remember a breathless major-paper editorial that focused entirely on Karzai's robes of many colors. He was Authentic and Our Son Of A Bitch, a rare and exhilarating thing for the imperial media.
Ruhullah Khapalwak contributed reporting.
Well, that sounds sort of Afghan-ish. You don't seriously expect Carlotta Gall of the New York Times to waste her time speaking directly to our chosen puppet? Guy probably has one of those hard-to-understand foreign accents. Better to pass that job off to an underling.
And can I just add that if you wanted to sum up the officious arrogance of the New York Times in a single name, you could do a lot worse than "Carlotta Gall."
Oh, most of that stuff on Karzai is down the memory hole. But if you've got a subscription to Lexis Nexis, maybe you're in luck.
In the meantime:
http://cursor.org/stories/emptyspace3.html
God, this is like the news readers gushing about Bush in the flight suit.
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