Karzai: U.S., NATO aren’t succeeding

[unhappycamper]

At a news conference Nov. 26 with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Afghan President Hamid Karzai expanded on his comments from a day earlier, saying he had not asked the international community for a withdrawal date, but a "date for your success."


Karzai: U.S., NATO aren’t succeeding
By Jason Straziuso - The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Nov 26, 2008 16:23:15 EST

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s president sharply critiqued the seven-year Afghan war Wednesday, complaining that U.S. 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 Wednesday. “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 U.N. 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.”

The president expanded on that idea Wednesday during a joint news conference with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, saying he was not asking for a withdrawal date, but rather a “date for your success.”


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/11/ap_karzai_afghanistan_112608/%2e

[izzie]

1. This is where I part company with Obama. For get that country

The West has been lost in that country for 100's of years. Does any one think we will do better than the Russians or Brits or any other country? Only the people of the country will save them self. I think we should just spend our time with people who want to come into the 21th cen. It is sort of sad but what seems to be left in the countries is the crazies on the edge and the people to poor to leave. We can not save the world even if some of the poor people would be better off going with a country like us or England.

[madrchsod]

2. karzai has`t done much either

the time is long past to do anything about afganistan...

remember uncle dick was talking to the taliban about pipeline rights. as soon as the taliban turned him down uncle dick left the country to rot