There has been a lot of commentary recently that Karzai's popularity among Afghans has decreased, in line with the Obama administration's drop of confidence in him. However, Asia Times online argues the opposite: the fact that Karzai has been rejected by the West and Obama has led to him gaining respectability in Afghan eyes.
The supreme irony is that what is probably helping Karzai more than anything else to wrap up his re-election is that Western politicians like Schaffer [NATO secretary general] and Biden rubbished him and distanced themselves ostentatiously from him. Without the opprobrium of their company, Karzai's political fortunes began looking up. At once he began gaining a new credibility - even respectability - in Afghan eyes.
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