"It is reflective of the poverty of the Western media's coverage of the war that we have been so completely shielded from the nature of Karzai's regime. Throughout the Muslim world, the name Karzai is perceived as the archetype of a puppet of foreign occupation, like a Muslim Vidkun Quisling. As As'ad AbuKhalil asked:
"is there any Muslim who is more hated and despised by Muslims than Hamid Karzai? This is a Muslim who cannot even walk in any Muslim city. Hell. He can't even walk in his own cities in Afghanistan, and has to be sequestered in the presidential palace in Kabul, protected by US guards, to stay alive.""
