Hamid Karzai taking a page from the Dayton Moore playbook
"in an unusual public conversation about Afghanistan on Thursday, the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton went to some legnths to depict a looming coalition offensive around Kandahar as not a full-fledged military assault, but, in Mr. Karzai's words, "a process."
And in other news, Mr. Karzai is hiring Trey Hillman as manager of Kandahar province.