OPINION: In Defense of Hamid Karzai‎ - WSJ

Is Mr. Karzai as bad as his immediate predecessor, Mullah Mohammed Omar, under whose medieval rule Afghanistan became not just a safe haven for al Qaeda, but a byword for Islamist barbarism? Is he as bad as what came before the Taliban: Four years of unrestrained civil war in which nearly all of Kabul was blasted to ruin?

Would they have done better under Mr. Karzai's main challenger in the last election, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah? - In Defense of Hamid Karzai‎

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