Gutless.
Via Beltway Confidential:
Secretary of State John Kerry won’t “lecture or chide” Afghan President Hamid Karzai for claiming that the United States is colluding with the Taliban, the State Department said today.
“We’re not there to lecture him or chide [Karzai] ,” a senior administration official said during a background briefing from Kerry’s airplane as he traveled to Afghanistan. The official was responding to a reporter who asked if Kerry would call for Karzai to retract his accusation that the United States is having daily talks with the Taliban.
“[W]e’ve addressed this with President Karzai. I mean, to the comment he made that we were meeting with the Taliban daily, we’ve gone privately to him to clarify that – what we’ve told him previously, we’ve been transparent with him throughout and that we haven’t met with them in over a year,” the official added. “And we’ve, of course, corrected the record on that publicly.”