Afghanistan: This Can't End Well

[al Roumi]

Good, Karzai's feeling the pressure to be accountable and rule in a way that might validate the whole wretched occupation. I wonder how far he would get trying to "join the other side", I'm not convinced that would end (or begin) too well for him. Like it or not, he does depend on the West - and it on him, but only because he is the most (ha!) legitimate leader.

If anyone else could be found to rival or challenge him for similar pan-Afghan electoral support, he would be dropped like a stone. Remember Dr Abdullah Abdullah?