Here's an Afghanistan Strategy

It's turning into a comic book war. Curiously, the White House hardly seems to be pretending otherwise.

Ridiculous allies are usually treated with great, if mock, respect. But the White House is pretty open about Afghan President Hamid Karzai being a psychopath or child, as well as a crook.

He's become one of the more fabulous characters of the terror wars, up there in mercurial nuttiness with Osama and Saddam--except Karzai is on our side.

Equivocally anyway. A few weeks ago, Karzai was threatening to join the Taliban.

He stole an election--without much trying to cover his tracks. His is a reign of corruption unrivaled in a place of historic and endemic corruption. Once an amiable American pawn, he gets more grandiose by the interview. And now he's become openly hostile and belligerent to American efforts to nurture even the appearance of reform and competence.

"Erratic" is the way the administration is describing him, which is the diplomatic term for totally off the wall.

And he's coming to meet with the president next month.

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