Fisk on USA's role in Karzai's re-election: Vietnam 2.0

Robert Fisk writes: "As in Vietnam – where Saigon was a lonely kingdom of brutal power totally isolated from the rest of the country – Karzai is going to rule over an equally tiny island of corruption, protected by US mercenaries while the Americans perform their familiar role of propping up a dictator." [Independent, via Ned Sublette]