When you’re flying to somebody else’s country and you go to your own military base and then you say, ‘come to my base’ — particularly for an Afghan. This would have made Karzai look like a total foreign puppet, says Ronald Neumann
Islamabad: “When you’re flying to somebody else’s country and you go to your own military base and then you say, ‘come to my base’ — particularly for an Afghan. This would have made Karzai look like a total foreign puppet, being summoned to the foreign leader at the foreign leader’s base. That was impossible to carry out. What I have no idea of is whether the administration simply understood that it was impossible but didn’t care, or whether they understood Afghanistan so little they didn’t understand how insulting their behavior was. Both are possible”, commented former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan Ronald Neumann in a interview with Susan Page of USA TODAY.
Watch interview here (courtesy–USA TODAY)
