CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS February 9, 2014 18:02:00
That's what many americans think and on the face of it, the afghan president has said lots of odd, inflammatory an contradictory things. over the past year he has wondered whether the american presence in afghanistan has done any good at all, refused to sign an afghan/u.s. security pact and called members of the taliban his brothers. this week "the new york times" revealed he had been conducting secret negotiations with the taliban. what can he be thinking? maybe karzai is looking at what happened to one of his predecessors. in 1989 the soviet union withdrew from afghanistan, the president it ...