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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!(April 6) -- White House spokesman Robert Gibbs today pointedly avoided calling Hamid Karzai an ally of the United States and suggested that his invitation to Washington on May 12 will depend on "whatever continued or further remarks President Karzai makes." That warning is the latest evidence of a deepening rift between the Obama administration and the Afghan president over his wavering allegiance to U.S. efforts to push back the Taliban and support his government with up to 100,000 troops. It came as one of Karzai's most vociferous critics, U.S. diplomat Peter Galbraith, the former ...
Raised in a privileged household and educated at Harvard and Oxford, Peter Galbraith, son of legendary JFK-era economist John Kenneth Galbraith, has demonstrated a lifelong commitment to public service. He was for 14 years a senior staffer on the U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee until Bill Clinton appointed him ambassador to Croatia in 1993. More recently, until mid-September, he was a U.N. adviser on the Afghanistan elections, a job he lost for taking a principled stand over vote-counting fraud which, Galbraith suggested, the United Nations mission in Afghanistan was willing to ...
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