12/23/2005
Qanooni steps down? not exactly.
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From the NYT:
Top Afghan Lawmaker Quits Opposition to Back Karzai
KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 22 - The new chairman of Afghanistan’s Parliament, Yunus Qanooni, said today that he would resign as leader of the opposition and support the government of Afghanistan in the interests of the people.
He says he can’t lead a party of the north at the same time and lead this country–so he’s turning it over to Rabbani to become the chairman. Rabbani is now the new chairman of the political party that Qanooni was formerly the head of, and Qanooni remains the prime minister and a member and a leader of no specific political party. This is precisely the same strategy that Massoud used to unite the many different groups years ago. It is simply brilliant.
Consider in the US you have the Libertarian party, the Constitution Party, the Republican Party and so on. Nobody from the Liberatarian Party would join the Republican Party, and the same situation is true with the Constitution Party. But what would happen if a new party was formed and the members of all three joined it? That’s precisely the strategy that Qanooni is taking. The many different factions will all be joining Qanooni, and Karzai’s delusions of grandeur are toast.
Mr. Qanooni passed the leadership of his opposition bloc to Burhanuddin Rabbani, a fellow ethnic Tajik and former president, who withdrew from the race for chairman in favor of his younger colleague.
Rabbani is someone whom the American government has been lavishing with expensive gifts, and when he threw his support behind Qanooni just a few days ago, Karzai was infuriated.
Carlotta Gall is so clueless it makes me want to puke.
From Superpatriots.us:
Massoud’s Northern Alliance Seizes Control of Afghan Parliament and Government in Bloodless Coup- Yunis Qanooni Elected Chief of Parliament (Prime Minister). Qanooni is being hailed as a “winner in a close race” by the western press.
What they press fails to grasp is that Qanooni was running against two other Northern Alliance leaders in the election for Chief (equivalent to Prime Minister). Now that the election is over and Qanooni is officially in control, both of his opponents have joined him in a new “United Front” to follow Massoud’s way and stand against the Karzai government through politics instead of war. The Northern Alliance is now BACK in control of the Afghan government and that might be bad for the US State Department but it is GOOD for Americans and the war on terror.
And more from Superpatriots in their hot news section
12/21/2005 Kabul- In a move that shocked anyone that thought they knew anything about Afghan politics, former President Burhanuddin Rabbani, who western pundits thought would be the spoiler and take the necessary votes from Qanooni to win the race for the most powerful man in Afghanistan, called a press conference and withdrew at the very last moment, throwing his support to Yunis Qanooni and calling Qanooni his son, the nation’s son, and the son of freedom. Karzai’s plan to defeat Qanooni, supported by tens of millions in US taxpayer funds secretly passed from Karzai to Rabbani to insure the defeat of Qanooni, was flushed into the sewer without so much as a farewell.
It was a devastating blow to Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad’s plot to redirect the history of Afghanistan, and insure it’s complete Pashtunization by former Taliban elements in an effort to “compromise in the interest of peace.”
Now that the election is over and Qanooni is officially in control, both of his opponents have joined him in a new “United Front” to follow Massoud’s way and stand against the Karzai government through politics instead of war. Qanooni is still the head of Parliament, this move has just made him stronger with more influence.
After the election Former President Rabbani met privately with Hamid Karzai and told him, “you did this to yourself. I gave you the country to protect the people from crime and terrorists and protect freedom and you sold your heart and destroyed your people. I never would have given you the presidency had I ever known what you were going to do. Now your time is done, and now Yunis Qanooni will stop the terrorists and bring security and the real freedom that our people deserve after 25 years of war.”
Make no mistake about it, the Lords of War are in control and Afghans are already sleeping easier knowing that things are about to get much better for all of them.
