It should be no surprise, I write today, that American officials desperately working to stave off military defeat and political collapse in Afghanistan find themselves cutting dirty deals with nasty people—like Hamid Karzai’s brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai. In Afghanistan,  a country that’s been involved in chaotic civil and international conflicts for thirty years, the people who have scrambled to the top of the bloody heap are unsavory, and U.S. involvement there—as much as Americans may huff and puff—demands that we hold our noses and give these characters  cash (knowing they won’t show us any receipts).

The real question, of course, is whether the Brother Karzai is a Viagra-sponsored warlord…

Read the full article at The Daily Beast…