What will Afghanistan President Karzai say in London?
McClatchy Newspapers By Roy Gutman 01/27/2010 Sixty nations convene in London Thursday to discuss Afghanistan’s future. Will President Karzai announce plans to bring Taliban into his government? Will he criticize US role in Afghanistan? Kabul – When 60 or more nations convene in London Thursday to discuss Afghanistan’s future, the script calls for agreement on plans to split the Taliban insurgency, a process to reach an eventual political settlement, improvements in governance and the battle against corruption. What everyone’s bracing for is the unscripted – when Afghan President Hamid Karzai takes the podium. “In the past, President Karzai has occasionally used public speeches to say things that seem pretty harsh to us,” said one US official in Kabul, who like others spoke anonymously because of the sensitivity of the issue. Karzai won’t be begging for more from the U.S. and the more than 40 other nations who’ve sent forces and treasure to Afghanistan to prevent the Islamist insurgenc
