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US Could Have Done Better in Afghanistan: Karzai
[Tolo News] In a recent Interview with the Time Magazine World, Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... has said that US could have done better in Afghanistan if it respected the homes of Afghans and fought terrorism elsewhere. "In its time here the United States could have done a lot better for Afghanistan," President Karzai has told Time Magazine. "But then they did not regard the homes of Afghan villagers as homes that gave the United States and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... a welcome." "And in the name in the war on terror, which everybody knew was to be fought elsewhere; too many innocent Afghans bit the dust. Too many were maimed, too many homes were violated," Mr Karzai is quoted as saying. But the Afghanistan's Caped President has also thanked the US and NATO for bringing better education, healthcare, economic growth and somehow stability in Afghanistan, while he has criticised them for not bringing security. "It did not bring the defeat of terrorism, as we thought it would. It did not fight the war in terrorism in a manner that we felt was right." Karzai told the Time in an exclusive interview. Posted by: Fred 2012-06-03 |
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