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Afghan President Karzai persists with anti-American remarks

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    John Bolton, former US ambassador to the United Nations, weighs in

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All right so what's going on here Afghan President Hamid Karzai persists with his criticism of the United States.

In a -- speech Karzai repeated comments he made over the weekend -- -- America.

His remarks remarks as suggesting the Taliban and the United States are working together to show the country is unstable.

And that violence will only get worse.

Let's talk about a -- ambassador John Bolton the former US ambassador to the UN and a Fox News contributor.

This is the guy that the United States basically hand picked to put into that post to run that country.

And and and you know try to put things back together.

Right picking over ten years ago and when there wasn't a lot of competition frankly to to take on a very difficult job.

But I think it's some indication of of how things have gone and not to our.

Interest that he's still in power ten plus years later the institutions of government of really not adapted.

And yet we're so wait until I am.

Because of the programs we've pursued that now when he turns on us it's it's a very difficult situation these remarks on Sunday saying that the Taliban are killing civilians basically in service of the united state -- -- ridiculous and really we should say so I mean what the point he seems to be tried to make an Afghan politics is.

The Americans are trying to find a way to stay in the country and he's trying to present himself as the defender of Afghan Saturday.

But you know -- we're talking is Taliban it's true I think it's a bad idea but in part we're doing it at Hamad Karzai's suggestion sometime back.

He's playing an intricate political game I don't think it's gonna work out well form it's not gonna work out for us either.

Is he plotting for his own survival after the American -- look I think that's what it comes down to have a very pessimistic view about what happens when we withdrawal or even if we maintain a small residual force.

Think everybody can see the direction this is going and I think Taliban and al-Qaeda are gonna come back in as we leave and I think Hamid Karzai.

Either be be prepared to make a very quick exit to Switzerland.

Or is gonna meet the same fate is his predecessors in the past couple decades and be executed by Taliban.

Yet it is not paid job position that is it is given to you know -- long line exactly no job security no doubt about.

-- there is some have said that that you know by portraying himself as this sort of anti American tough guy that he may.

Inculcate some friends among among the Taliban or.

Those who would replace well that's -- say hit his game has been to change back and forth -- he was the one who thought.

We could split the Taliban we could bring over to our side some of the warlords who were more interested and got in drugs to a -- -- -- as the selling and that sort of thing that in.

Islamists as religious beliefs.

But the fact is that in trying to make his way through the complicated Taliban politics he simply endangered himself and our strategic interest in the country.

But for all of the blood that we have shed there on on behalf of trying to prop up his government trying to make a governor -- country out of Afghanistan -- mean.

-- what should the families of our soldiers.

Be thinking we're looking.

Comments are inexcusable but but our interest in Afghanistan should not be seen is propping up his government are making a nice Switzerland style democracy there which is gonna happen we had.

Key political military objective stop Taliban and al-Qaeda from attacking the United States and now making sure that next door pockets done.

Doesn't fall into the hands of extremists then and that supplied nuclear weapons -- to their hands so -- got real interest -- benefit the United States I'm afraid we're about to throw them away.

And yeah I was going to ask how much of that have we achieved.

Well I think we achieve the substantial amount but but if the people in Afghanistan and Pakistan think we're short timers which the Obama administration -- made sure we are.

They're gonna look at Taliban who aren't going anywhere and us departing and conclude that their best.

Safety comes from siding with Taliban that's why Taliban's return to power seems to me almost impossible to prevent if we pull out.

Ambassador John Bolton.

Thanks thank you.

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