So Much Parody, You Sorta Can't Make This Up

In the NYTIMES article that asks "How much leverage does the United States really have over the Afghan leader?"

The answer...

“You know that scene in the movie ‘Blazing Saddles,’ when Cleavon Little holds the gun to his own head and threatens to shoot himself?” asked Ronald E. Neumann, a former ambassador to Afghanistan.

So much parody...