Afghan Diplomatic Failure Exposed as CIA Cover Blown

 

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Afghanistan: "Our man" Hamid Karzai refuses to meet President Obama. Meanwhile, the White House accidentally exposes a CIA station chief. How can such incompetence "lead the world anew," as Obama promised in 2008?

'This must be the moment when we answer the call of history," candidate Obama declared in July 2008, in, of all places, the Ronald Reagan federal building in Washington, "to join with friends and partners to lead the world anew."

Not only are we not enjoying the foreign-policy miracles Obama promised — disarming Iran of the nuclear weapons it's building, defeating a widely dispersed post-bin Laden al-Qaida, to name just a couple — but we're losing longtime "friends and partners" who see our president's repeated bumbling and promise-breaking.

Interviewed on Fox News, former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton called it "utter incompetence."

"It's like there's nobody in charge at the White House," Bolton said in reference to the release of the name of the chief CIA agent in Afghanistan in a press handout during the president's visit to a nation he is now throwing to the Islamofascist wolves.

In his 2008 speech, Obama said that the Afghanistan fight is "a war that we have to win." But speaking of "why we're here," Obama told troops at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan on Memorial Day that we're "in the process of transition" — a funny way of describing surrender.

Reducing U.S. troops from today's 33,500 to 9,800 by early next year, as announced Tuesday, with a new mission of training Afghan government forces, will not keep the Taliban from power.

Terrorists know that by the close of 2016, the American military presence will be the security at the U.S. embassy in Kabul. No wonder Afghan President Karzai — who fought Soviet invaders in the 1980s and was reportedly on the CIA payroll both then and until recently — refused to meet with Obama on his visit.

Obama's past dealings with Karzai reportedly included threatening a "zero option" of total U.S. withdrawal.

So confident is the Taliban of its return, it actually opened a diplomatic/political office in Qatar last summer. A few days later it conducted a major attack in Kabul, targeting the presidential palace, the government's defense headquarters and a CIA facility.

Yet Obama tried negotiating with the Taliban. This is what happens when you elect as leader of the free world an amateur who admits, "I've got a healthy ego."