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Karzai and the Scent of U.S. Irresolution
(Wall Street Journal) Fouad Ajami - "They do give us bags of money - yes, yes, it is done, we are grateful to the Iranians for this." This is the East, and baksheesh is the way of the world, Hamid Karzai brazenly let it be known this week. Karzai saw the scorn of Iran's cruel leaders for America's diplomatic approaches. He could see Iranian power extend all the way to the Mediterranean, right up to Israel's borders with Lebanon and to Gaza. The Iranians were next door and the Americans were giving away their fatigue. Why not accept the entreaties from Tehran? The writer is a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.