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Hamid Karzai taking a page from the Dayton Moore playbook

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"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.