General Jack Keane: Hamid Karzai’s Planned Prisoner Release Is Unacceptable

What Is Hamid Karzai Thinking? (Politico)

For years, a debate has raged in Washington: Is Hamid Karzai on another planet?

Lately, those who think Afghanistan’s mercurial president has left this earthly plane have had the upper hand. Much recent reporting paints a picture of a paranoid man sequestered in his palace, fuming over American slights, threatening to release dozens of terrorist suspects from prison and plotting to join forces with the Taliban.