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karynnj

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5. Christian Science Monitor has insight on the move to a unity government
Mon Jul 14, 2014, 04:38 PM
Jul 2014

They essentially are correcting a major flaw in the Bush influenced government giving the President very strong powers.

The United States-backed and guided Afghan constitution that was put in place a decade ago created a powerful, almost king-like authority for Hamid Karzai, the man hand-picked by the George W. Bush administration to run the country.
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But that's not really the important bit. It appears that Kerry extracted from both men a promise to work towards creating a new arrangement that would end the supreme powers of the Afghan presidency.

Here's the key bit from the UN statement on the agreement: "The agreement also includes the formation of a government of national unity upon the declaration of the final results of the Presidential election."


http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Security-Watch/Backchannels/2014/0714/Did-Kerry-just-ditch-America-s-vision-for-Afghanistan

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