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A bit of a running theme in the Taliban’s latest statement (PDF downloadable from non-terrorist site here), responding to the appointment of Hamid Karzai as president:

It is a pity that the Western colonialism spent more than five hundred millions of dollars as election (expenditure) ….

The public of the world already knows the expansionist colonialist plans of the West under the pretext of terrorism ….

The Islamic Emirate calls on the people to foil all conspiracies of colonialism like they did foil the melodrama of the elections ….

We will only be able to flounder out of the trap of colonialism when we become real owners of our own home ….

The statement has more of the usual “Karzai is the puppet of the U.S.”, and this bit, reinforcing the nationalist, Islamic-based agenda messaging seen in other recent statements here and here:

The Islamic Emirate calls on the people to foil all conspiracies of colonialism like they did foil the melodrama of the elections and unite for the common cause of the liberation of the country and establishment of a real Islamic government.  We will only be able to flounder out of the trap of colonialism when we become real owners of our own home, when the power of decisionmaking is with us alone, not with foreigners and when our decisions and perceptions are Islamic, Afghan and independent.

A quick summary in haiku, from my Twitter feed:

Election cancelled.

U.S. puppet back in.

Forced “democracy”