{"id":3616,"date":"2009-11-03T12:23:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T17:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3616"},"modified":"2011-02-24T14:49:52","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T19:49:52","slug":"karzai-a-wild-card-for-u-s-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/11\/03\/karzai-a-wild-card-for-u-s-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Karzai a &#8220;wild card&#8221; for U.S. policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3617\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/11\/Karzai-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Karzai\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Afghan President Karzai&#8217;s <a title=\"re-election\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/GCA-Afghanistan-Pakistan\/idUSTRE5A22IK20091103\" target=\"_blank\">re-election <\/a>by default leaves the U.S. in the pre-election dilemma of having to deal with an Afghan government that the people there don&#8217;t trust.\u00a0 Journalism Professor <a title=\"Nick Mills\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/nick_b_mills.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Mills<\/a>, author of &#8220;<em>Karzai: The Failing American Intervention and the Struggle for Afghanistan<\/em>,&#8221; says Karzai has consistently failed to make the tough decisions that would have moved that nation forward.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I don\u2019t think the American public will support a large escalation of military forces and spending to defend a government that refuses to do its share of the heavy lifting.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Nick Mills, 617-353-3492, <a href=\"mailto:nmills@bu.edu\">nmills@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan President Karzai&#8217;s re-election by default leaves the U.S. in the pre-election dilemma of having to deal with an Afghan government that the people there don&#8217;t trust.\u00a0 Journalism Professor Nick Mills, author of &#8220;Karzai: The Failing American Intervention and the Struggle for Afghanistan,&#8221; says Karzai has consistently failed to make the tough decisions that would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[116,495,1596],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3616"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8394,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions\/8394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}