President Obama flubbed President Ashraf Ghani’s name just moments after the Afghan leader thanked American soldiers and taxpayers at a White House press conference, mistakenly referring to him as the notoriously corrupt “President Karzai.”
At a joint press briefing on Tuesday, Obama spoke about a new agreement with the Afghan president to keep the current level of 9,800 American soldiers in the country through the end of 2015, rather than reducing the number this year.
He noted the need to keep soldiers and advisers in the Central Asian nation “in part, so that President Karzai — who has taken on the mantle of commander-in-chief in a way that we have not seen in the past from an Afghan president — can do a serious review.”
Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai, who served for almost a decade before stepping down in September 2014, was plagued by corruption scandals and often served as a thorn in the side of American security forces in the country.
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