American Zionists analyze the Middle East

"“Even if we get a second round of voting, the odds are still high that Karzai will win,” said Bruce Riedel, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who advised the administration on its Afghan policy. “We have a fundamental interest in building up the legitimacy of the Karzai government.”" By the way, this dude was the chief Middle East expert at the National Security Council in the Clinton Administration. He got my attention when he gave an interview to Pipes' Middle East Quarterly in the mid-1990s when he denied that Arab public opinion was concerned over the impact of US-imposed sanctions on Iraq. Notice that the "quality" of Middle East expertise at the White House does not change from a Republican to a Democratic administration.