Farewell Kabul - From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World by Christina Lamb

Author:Christina Lamb [Lamb, Christina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, History, Afghan War; 2001, Afghanistan
Goodreads: 25440875
Publisher: William Collins
Published: 2015-04-08T23:00:00+00:00

One evening he had dinner with two visiting American Senators, both from the Democratic Party: Jack Reed from Rhode Island and Richard Durbin of Illinois. It was a classic Karzai performance – charming and disarming them. They wanted to talk about problems with governance and narcotics. He offered them pumpkin, asked them about Halloween in the US, and commented on the wild wind.

I remembered the words of the Danish Ambassador Franz-Michael Melbin, who went on to be the EU Special Representative. ‘Whenever we have Ministers or politicians going to see him I always warn them before going in, “He will distract you – try to think of two main points you want to raise, and make sure you get them out.”’5

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