Wednesday
May062009
Video: Afghan President Karzai at Brookings Institution (5 May)
Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 8:15
In advance of his meetings today with US officials and President Obama, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai spoke at the prominent US think tank The Brookings Institution for almost an hour, citing recent achievements and looking at where the country will advance "as we go into the next elections and the next five or ten or fifteen years".
Nothing stunning in the talk, but a confident and lucid Karzai emphasised Afghan advances in social services and political development. Doing so, he set up a powerful counter-narrative to the charges that he and his advisors are corrupt and ineffective leaders.
This is an extract from Karzai on "the higher moral platform" in the approach in and to Afghanistan. The full video is on the C-Span website.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBi8J4wKatw[/youtube]
Nothing stunning in the talk, but a confident and lucid Karzai emphasised Afghan advances in social services and political development. Doing so, he set up a powerful counter-narrative to the charges that he and his advisors are corrupt and ineffective leaders.
This is an extract from Karzai on "the higher moral platform" in the approach in and to Afghanistan. The full video is on the C-Span website.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBi8J4wKatw[/youtube]