History Lesson

We are seeing articles like this one from Reuters in which President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan blames NATO for his country's troubles, especially the U.S. He even threatens to join the Taliban. Karzai apparently thinks we have no choice but to put up with his bad boy behavior.

Someone should remind Karzai of what happened to President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam when he became seriously inconvenient. Diem was ousted and murdered in a U.S.-backed coup.

Like Vietnam, Afghanistan is a violent place. Karzai doesn't want to discover the point at which he becomes seriously inconvenient.