What is it about political leaders installed by America in third world countries? It seems they never want to leave office. It started in Vietnam in the 1960s, where the CIA ruthlessly removed Vietnamese leaders who at first were useful to the US occupation, but refused to step down when they were not.
President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan was a darling of Washington after the attacks of September 11 2001. Now he is a hate figure in the US capital, alleged to have allowed rigged elections that have plunged the country into an ethnic crisis that pitches Pashtuns against Tajiks.
And then there is Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. For months, most Iraqis and foreign diplomats have been united in one chorus: “anyone but Maliki.”
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