HUFFINGTON POST: Afghan President Hamid Karzai may not be able to silence his critics in Washington, but he can stop them from entering his country. On Friday, Karzai barred Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) from traveling to Afghanistan with his fellow congressmen. Rohrabacher, a longtime critic of Karzai, called the move a “pretty desperate” attempt to prevent his views from being aired in front of the Afghan people.
“The nature of his own regime is corrupt and he doesn’t want anyone to be able to say it,” Rohrabacher told The Huffington Post from Qatar, where he was awaiting a flight back to the United States on Monday…
What this reflects is that there’s been too many of our own leaders who should have been serious and definitive with Karzai,” he said. “Our own political leaders here in the United States have been walking on eggshells instead of forcing people to look at the hard truth in Afghanistan and they don’t want to enrage Karzai… (more)
