{"id":15896,"date":"2009-11-03T17:15:04","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T17:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/karzai_is_vague_on_confronting_corruption_in_afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2009-11-03T17:15:04","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T17:15:04","slug":"karzai_is_vague_on_confronting_corruption_in_afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15896","title":{"rendered":"Karzai Is Vague on Confronting Corruption in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Hamid Karzai, in his first speech since he was declared the winner of the much-disputed presidential election, said Tuesday that he wanted to tackle corruption but made no specific commitments to reorganize his administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfghanistan has been tarnished by administrative corruption and I will launch a campaign to clean the government of corruption,\u201d\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if that might involve changing key ministers and officials, he said, \u201cThese problems cannot be solved by changing high-ranking officials. We\u2019ll review the laws and see what problems are in the law and we will draft some new laws.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/04\/world\/asia\/04afghan.html?hp\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Hamid Karzai, in his first speech since he was declared the winner of the much-disputed presidential election, said Tuesday that he wanted to tackle corruption but made no specific commitments to reorganize his administration. \u201cAfghanistan has been tarnished by<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15896\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,168,151,34,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-theology","category-war-in-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}