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Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s attempt last week to prevent the seating of the country’s new parliament is yet another reason we should have gotten rid of him a long time ago. But even as I’ve grown tired of writing op-eds about his fecklessness and our insane tolerance for it, I continue to find Karzai’s style of governance fascinating. It manifests a self-contained world, in which Karzai is both the problem and the solution. This conveniently distracts his foreign financiers from the many real problems of the country, which might actually be solvable with a different president in charge.