Karzai Would be Wise to Leave Now

Hamid Karzai knows the clock is ticking on his Presidency. Who can he trust? The US would sell him out to the Taliban if they could negotiate a 'quiet' exodus in return. But are the US actually negotiating with the Taliban? The French had great difficulty in their attempts to extricate themselves from Algeria in 1961/62 ascertaining if they were talking to the right people. Usually they weren't. With the result that their shambolic exit was accompanied by the massacre of many thousands of former allies and collaborators. Karzai himself has been a US/NATO collaborator in the eyes of the Taliban. Mullah Omar has not endorsed the starting up of the 'Taliban' office in Doha. So the Americans are not sure who they are dealing with. It’s probably Taliban light. Mullah Omar is sufficiently powerful, he would have to sign off on the peace talks. Also, Kerry seems to be stumbling all the time. He is stumbling with the peace talks in Syria, and all of a sudden there is confusion about the peace talks in Doha, Qatar. It all sets the scene for the NATO exit to be as disastrous as the long and bloody stay.