{"id":3804,"date":"2009-11-20T11:36:59","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T16:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3804"},"modified":"2011-02-17T16:50:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:50:33","slug":"new-u-s-tact-with-karzai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/11\/20\/new-u-s-tact-with-karzai\/","title":{"rendered":"New U.S. tact with Karzai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3805\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/11\/Karzai-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Karzai 2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Recognizing they need him as a partner, Washington is <a title=\"shifting\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/11\/19\/AR2009111903992.html\" target=\"_blank\">shifting<\/a> to a softer approach in its dealings with re-elected Afghan President Hamid Karzai.\u00a0 Journalism Professor <a title=\"Nick Mills\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/nick_b_mills.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Mills<\/a>,\u00a0author of &#8220;<em>Kazai: The Failing American Intervention and the Struggle for Afghanistan<\/em>,&#8221; has known Karzai since the 1980s.\u00a0 Mills writes in the current issue of <a title=\"Foreign Policy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2009\/11\/19\/my_nights_with_hamid\" target=\"_blank\">Foreign Policy <\/a>about how he&#8217;s watched Karzai change.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Since the day in December 2001 when he was named head of the new post-Taliban government and had the support of the vast majority of the Afghan people, he has shied away from the hard decisions that might have set Afghanistan on a more promising course.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure if he has it in him to do it now.&#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>Recognizing they need him as a partner, Washington is shifting to a softer approach in its dealings with re-elected Afghan President Hamid Karzai.\u00a0 Journalism Professor Nick Mills,\u00a0author of &#8220;Kazai: The Failing American Intervention and the Struggle for Afghanistan,&#8221; has known Karzai since the 1980s.\u00a0 Mills writes in the current issue of Foreign Policy about how [&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\/3804"}],"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=3804"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8285,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions\/8285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}