Former UN Envoy To Afghanistan Suggests Karzai Has A Drug Problem

[Turborama]

Source: MSNBC

On MSNBC this morning, Peter Galbraith, the former UN envoy to Afghanistan, suggested that Afghan President Hamid Karzai "has a certain fondness for some of Afghanistan's most profitable exports."

Galbraith lost his job last year after a very public disagreement with his boss about how to deal with allegations of fraud in Afghanistan's election.

Today on MSNBC, Galbraith addressed Afghanistan's president.

"He's prone to tirades. He can be very emotional, act impulsively. In fact, some of the palace insiders say that he has a certain fondness for some of Afghanistan's most profitable exports."

"So you're saying he's got an issue, he's got his own substance abuse problem?" Chuck Todd asked.

"There are reports to that effect," Galbraith said.

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh boy . . . .

[dave29]

2. Afgramistan

strikes again

[Rick Myers]

3. I thought his substance of choice was oil!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

12. Yep- Hash Oil

:evilgrin:

[maxsolomon]

4. hash or opium?

hash, we can deal.
opium, bigger problem.

rather easy to grow fond of either of those.

[xultar]

5. So the guys is pissed about his people getting killed and the bullets being dug

out of the bodies to cover it up and he is a drug abuser.

mmmk

[Tempest]

10. Karzai has been erratic long before that

You can trace it back to the first election.

[ro1942]

11. Totally agree,thanks

[zipplewrath]

6. I'm old enough to remember this

Sooner or later there will be a change of government, then we'll have to stay around to "help them through the transition". Then we'll see the "light at the end of the tunnel. We'll get there by winning their hearts and minds. Then there will be peace with honor. I'd say the Peace Prize is next but they already handed that one out.

[Flaneur]

7. I think it's NATO and the US that have a drug problem.

The drug is opium.

The problem is it is financing all sides in the Afghan conflict.

And if you move against it, you make lots of enemies.

War on drugs or war on terror, pick one, but pick only one.

[change_notfinetuning]

8. IMO, the drug seems to be war. That's what they're hooked on. n/t

[Soylent Brice]

9. life is truly stranger than fiction. n/t

[KamaAina]

13. This'd make a kick-ass movie

Kind of like "Scarface" meets "Black Hawk Down".

What'ya say? I'll have my people call your people, and we'll do lunch.

Except that it's real... :scared:

[brettjv]

14. As a recovering opioid addict, let me just say ...

if someone suddenly made ME President of Afghanistan ... rich, above the law ... and in Afghanistan ... I'd be in BIG, BIG trouble.