Karzai’s Brother Assassinated In His Own Home

We’ve known for some time that Afghanistan is in a mess that is more than we can fix. President Karzai’s brother was assassinated last night by one of his own security guards.

KABUL–The half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai was assassinated by one of his security guards inside his house in Kandahar on Tuesday morning, witnesses and Afghan officials said, a political killing that will reverberate widely through the country and could destabilize a key region in the U.S. military’s campaign against the Taliban.

Ahmed Wali Karzai–head of Kandahar’s provincial council and widely considered the most powerful man in southern Afghanistan–had been meeting with tribal elders and politicians in his heavily fortified home in downtown Kandahar city when a security guard walked into his meeting room and requested a private discussion, according to two people at the house at the time.

Karzai and the guard left for another room, and shortly afterwards three gunshots rang out.

The more I hear about the state of Afghanistan, the more I believe that we need to get out as fast as we can. I don’t think we are going to be able to fix the problems of a country that has been at war for decades.