Karzai has not been performing well recently as this summary shows (e.g. he made unfounded accusations fo "fraud" by the West in connection with the elections in Afghanistan in which he himself is accused of fraud)
Week of blunders
The Guardian
08 Apr 2010
Thursday Karzai sparked controversy when he denied he or his supporters had been guilty of election fraud and blamed outsiders. “There was huge fraud, there was vast fraud. The fraud is not by the Afghans. This fraud has been done by the foreigners.”...read more...