A second rumor on unseating Karzai
Again, it's at the rumor stage, but, following the Guardian's report a couple days ago, the British TimesOnline echoes a softer version of the proposal to create a parallel "Prime Minister" position in the Afghani government to take away Karzai's power.
This one seems like it's more of a policy advocacy kind of "leak" than an actual active plan, but it's also a second story that this discussion of disempowering Karzai is going on.
So, who is pushing this into the press?
This one seems like it's more of a policy advocacy kind of "leak" than an actual active plan, but it's also a second story that this discussion of disempowering Karzai is going on.
So, who is pushing this into the press?
posted by mikevotes at
7:58 AM
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Trial balloon designed to pressure Karzai would be my guess. I can't see a 'parallel Prime Minister' lasting five minutes.
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Anonymous, at 10:05 AM
And I wouldn't know how you'd pull it off Constitutionally. There may be a prime minister's spot, I don't know, but restructuring would be near impossible.
And, reading it all again, I'm guessing it's being pushed out by the Euros, maybe the British.
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mikevotes, at 10:54 AM
Well it's standard journalistic innuendo...'the Guardian has learned', 'diplomats say'....it's rubbish if they can't back up what they write.
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Anonymous, at 11:33 AM
No, I don't think they're making something like that up. It was fed to them by somebody.
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mikevotes, at 3:48 PM
You're probably right. I'm just getting fed up with this 'anonymous sources' stuff.
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Anonymous, at 8:18 PM
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