{"id":4007,"date":"2009-12-17T14:53:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T19:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4007"},"modified":"2011-02-17T16:44:06","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:44:06","slug":"u-s-talked-of-replacing-karzai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/12\/17\/u-s-talked-of-replacing-karzai\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. talked of replacing Karzai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4009\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/12\/Karzai-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Karzai\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>A top U.S. diplomat <a title=\"reportedly discussed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/17\/world\/asia\/17galbraith.html?scp=2&amp;sq=Karzai&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly discussed <\/a>enlisting the White House in replacing Afghan President Karzai after Karzai&#8217;s flawed re-election victory this fall.\u00a0 But it went no where and the diplomat was fired.\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; thinks the diplomat, Peter Galbraith, had the right idea.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;That the UN and the U.S. were so eager to declare Karzai the winner of the election despite his massive vote fraud and Karzai&#8217;s tolerance of systemic government corruption mocks the whole notion of what we&#8217;re supposed to be fighting for there.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Conact Nick Mills, 617-353-3492, <a href=\"mailto:nmills@bu.edu\">nmills@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top U.S. diplomat reportedly discussed enlisting the White House in replacing Afghan President Karzai after Karzai&#8217;s flawed re-election victory this fall.\u00a0 But it went no where and the diplomat was fired.\u00a0 Journalism Professor Nick Mills, author of &#8220;Karzai: The Failing American Intervention and the Struggle for Afghanistan,&#8221; thinks the diplomat, Peter Galbraith, had the [&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\/4007"}],"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=4007"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8232,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions\/8232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}