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Afghan leader - Karzai: faults US and NATO on war, and condemns Taliban

source: http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2008/11/27/afghan_leader_faults_us_and_...

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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's president sharply critiqued the seven-year Afghan war yesterday, complaining that US and NATO troops haven't made life better. The criticism came a day after he accused foreign forces of undermining him with a "parallel government" in the countryside.

The back-to-back barbs aimed at the international community's handling of the fight with the Taliban and the rebuilding of Afghanistan underlined President Hamid Karzai's increasing frustration with a conflict that has gotten bloodier each year.

"We haven't accepted the international community so our lives would get worse. We accepted them so our lives would get better," Karzai said. "We can accept some destruction - even some civilian casualties - if we have hope for a future of security and peace . . . but this [style of] fighting can't be the only way forever."

During a meeting Tuesday with a UN Security Council delegation, Karzai called for the international community to set a timeline for ending the war, although he didn't mention a specific date.

He asked how - given the number of countries involved and the amount of money spent in Afghanistan - "a little force like the Taliban can continue to exist, continue to flourish."
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2 comments // Afghan leader - Karzai: faults US and NATO on war, and condemns Taliban

  • arcticspirit
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    • NOTE:
      Nov 26, 2008
      KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai has defended his peace "overtures" to some Taliban militants but emphasized the fight against terror groups like al Qaeda must continue.
      Afghan President Hamid Karzai has defended his peace "overtures" to some Taliban militants.

      Afghan President Hamid Karzai has defended his peace "overtures" to some Taliban militants.

      Karzai on Tuesday attempted to assuage the fears of a visiting U.N. Security Council delegation about his efforts in what was a wide-ranging assessment of concerns about the state of affairs in Afghanistan.

      "Some of you are concerned, or perhaps a lot of you are concerned with my overtures to the Taliban, with my calls to the Taliban to join the peace process, and some of you are very concerned with my last call to Mullah Omar, that if he accepts the Afghan Constitution, and steps forward and declares that he wants peace for Afghanistan, and in Afghanistan, and he comes forward to seek residence that I will give him protection at any cost," he said, referring to the Taliban leader.

      The Taliban -- the Islamic movement that governed Afghanistan and harbored the al Qaeda terror network that attacked the United States on September 11, 2001 -- was toppled from power by the U.S.-led coalition in late 2001 but has since emerged as a potent insurgent group.

    • 3 years ago
  • arcticspirit
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      arcticspirit  

    • So is this guy talking out of both sides of his mouth or what? (see below)
      It appears to me he is blaming who ever is convenient for his own failings as president. And as leader of the new government. If things haven't gotten better, then much us up to them, it's not the job of the US government to run the day to day affairs of Afghanistan, yet we do help them control terrorists.

    • 3 years ago
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