The Trouble with Puppets

[lsanderson]

With Karzai, U.S. Faces Weak Partner in Time of War
Abdullah Abdullah was at times emotional on Sunday in announcing in Kabul that he was dropping out of a runoff.
By DAVID E. SANGER
Published: November 1, 2009

WASHINGTON — With the White House’s reluctant embrace on Sunday of Hamid Karzai as the winner of Afghanistan’s suddenly moot presidential runoff, President Obama now faces a new complication: enabling a badly tarnished partner to regain enough legitimacy to help the United States find the way out of an eight-year-old war. More

And, is it just me or have we stopped talking about the one in Iraq?