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"As far as some in Washington are concerned, Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai, not George W. Bush, was the real star of the President's State of the Union Address," reported a January 31st dispatch in the cyberzine The Idler. Decked out in an Uzbek cape, the leader of Afghanistan's post-Taliban government "reminded some of a champion boxer," while for others he summoned the memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Appearing at the National Press Club prior to the president's speech, Karzai beguiled the cynical international press corps with his charm, intelligence, and "animal magnetism." Apart from The Idler's anonymous correspondent, none of the swooning scribes saw fit to report a ...