Karzai Critic in Congress Is Asked to Cancel Afghanistan Visit

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/world/asia/congressman-rohrabacher-is-asked-to-cancel-afghanistan-trip.html

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From: barry levine
Date: Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:05 AM
Subject: re: Karzai Critic in Congress Is Asked to Cancel Afghanistan Visit
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:
   It is perilous that the U.S. is more invested in Mr. Karzai's
government than are the peoples of Afghanistan. Indeed, while there
are Pashtun in Afghanistan and Tajiks in Afghanistan and Uzbeks in
Afghanistan and Hazara in Afghanistan and a dozen ethnic minorities
that don't ever make the news here, there are very few who
self-identify as Afghans. Congressman's Rohrabacher's comments deserve
to be heard in Washington, where our policy is made even if they're
suppressed in Afghanistan.  The Taliban is a Pashtun movement deeply
resistant to living under non-Pashtun laws and mores.. A Federation of
Afghan states may be the best outcome we can hope to achieve. An
independent Pashtunistan or an Afghanistan in which all other ethnic
groups are oppressed by the Pashtun plurality seem worse.
Barry Haskell Levine