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To: greenspirit who wrote (92260)	4/11/2003 11:26:17 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The point I was making is the U.S. didn't install, appoint, or otherwise select the leader of Afghanistan. A representative of the various groups in the country was selected, and they voted. Perhaps. But the newspaper stories coming out of various meetings said, quite openly, that the US was insisting on Karzai and pushed very hard, even to the point of alienating a good many delegates. It looked, at the time, as if Karzai was a good choice and still does. But it was not exactly a moment in which the US said to the assembled warlords something on the order of "pick a leader." Rather the US apparently said something like "pick a leader but if it's not Karzai we're not supporting him."