KABUL (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama aims to bring the Afghan war to an end before he leaves office, he said on Wednesday, the eve of a swearing-in ceremony Western officials hope can help salvage Hamid Karzai's tattered reputation.
link: Obama vows Afghan exit; battered Karzai to take oath - Yahoo! News
...it's Karai's swearing-in that's supposed to rescue his reputation, or at least rescue it enough to gratify Western officials, but no...
The centerpiece will be Karzai's inauguration speech, with Western officials hoping to hear a specific program to combat graft, improve performance and limit the influence of warlords.
...it's a speech everyone's all excited about because, as we should all know by now, everything's in the spin.
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