Obama Should Show Karzai ‘Superpowers Don’t Bluff’
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July 10 (Bloomberg) -- In November 1963, when SouthVietnam’s first president, Ngo Dinh Diem, was going off thereservation and alienating his U.S. patrons, a group of SouthVietnamese generals helpfully staged a coup and assassinatedhim.
Fast-forward a half-century to Afghanistan, where membersof President Barack Obama’s administration can (thankfully) onlysplutter, sotto voce, to the New York Times that frustrationswith President Hamid Karzai’s government are driving the U.S. toconsider speeding up the complete withdrawal of troops -- a so-called zero option.