Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a
Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
called Thursday for an "accelerated" transition of security responsibilities from NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
forces in the wake of a scandal over U.S. troops abusing Afghan corpses.
"The only way to put an end to such painful experiences is through an accelerated and full transition of security responsibilities to Afghan forces," his office said in a statement.
Pictures published by the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday showed U.S. soldiers posing with the remains of Taliban bad boys, one of them with a man's hand draped over his shoulder.
Karzai condemned the pictures as "inhumane and provocative," adding: "It is such a disgusting act to take photos with body parts and then share it with others."
The president noted that similar incidents in the past had sparked an angry reaction by Afghans and the international community.
Every month this year a fresh scandal has rocked the alliance between the U.S. and the Karzai government in their joint efforts against Taliban bad boys.
In January, a video showed U.S. Marines urinating on Taliban corpses; in February U.S. soldiers burned copies of the Koran; and in March a U.S. soldier went on the rampage and murdered 17 villagers in their homes.