{"id":3736,"date":"2009-11-13T12:24:58","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T17:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3736"},"modified":"2011-02-17T16:51:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:51:19","slug":"u-s-lacks-leverage-over-karzai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/11\/13\/u-s-lacks-leverage-over-karzai\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. lacks leverage over Karzai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3737\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/11\/Karzai1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Karzai\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Despite President Obama&#8217;s call for Hamid Kazai to crack down on corrupution in Afghanistan, the U.S. apparently has <a title=\"little leverage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/12\/world\/asia\/12karzai.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">little leverage <\/a>over the Afghan president.\u00a0 Journalism Professor <a title=\"Nick Mills\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/nick_b_mills.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Mills<\/a>, author of &#8220;<em>Karzai: The failing American Intervention and the Struggle for Afghanistan<\/em>,&#8221; says without a credible &#8220;or else&#8221; threat, any demands on Karzai are just &#8220;dust in the wind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The huge blunders of the Bush Administration throughout its adventure in Afghanistan have created a no-win scenario for President Obama, and Karzai believes he has the West over a barrel. But I also think Karzai has probably lost control of events.&#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>Despite President Obama&#8217;s call for Hamid Kazai to crack down on corrupution in Afghanistan, the U.S. apparently has little leverage over the Afghan president.\u00a0 Journalism Professor Nick Mills, author of &#8220;Karzai: The failing American Intervention and the Struggle for Afghanistan,&#8221; says without a credible &#8220;or else&#8221; threat, any demands on Karzai are just &#8220;dust in [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736"}],"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=3736"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8296,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions\/8296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}