Thursday, April 1, 2010

Obama’s Afghan visit: laying down the law to a US puppet

by David Walsh from the World Socialist Web Site. Walsh takes on the media spin regarding the visit.
One of the principal aims of Obama’s trip was to lay down the law, gangster-style, to Afghan President Hamid Karzai over the latter’s recent flirtations with China and Iran. Karzai traveled to Beijing and Tehran in the last few weeks, and he also received a visit from Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.