Nato caused 'great suffering' - Karzai
The worm turns !
President Hamid Karzai has criticised Nato for failing to bring stability to Afghanistan in over a decade there.
"On the security front the entire Nato exercise was one that caused Afghanistan a lot of suffering, a lot of loss of life, and no gains because the country is not secure," he said.
Mr Karzai has just six months remaining in office until a successor is elected.
Speaking in one of his last major interviews before stepping down, he told BBC Newsnight that his priority now is to bring peace and security to Afghanistan, including a power-sharing deal with the Taliban.
He said that his government was actively engaged in talks with the hardline Islamic group with this aim in mind:
"They are Afghans. Where the Afghan president, the Afghan government can appoint the Taliban to a government job they are welcome," he said. "But where it's the Afghan people appointing people through elections to state organs then the Taliban should come and participate in elections."
Like the Egyptian Presidents, Karzai keeps mum as long as he keeps getting the funds !
Looks like the americans are not paying Karzai enough money this days to keep him quiet and the guy is now showing his dissatisfaction in a subtle way. I would not be surprised if Karzai goes bad mouthing the americans or turns against them once he is kicked out of office
Opium is still being produced and marketed to fund activities and pay off the government agencies.
B/S
The taliban were selling opium to fund their evil regime.
Rofl
Got rid of opium
The Talibam are murderous scum, no two ways about it but hey let them murder every last Afghan and enslave all the women, what do we care.
Possibly...with a few additions.
Is this the sane Taliban that were bossom buddies of the US during soviet invasion and now are guests of Qatar?
Splitt, maybe all those killed by the Taliban and their supporters are buried to quickly to be counted?
What is the death toll ? As general franks said - the US doesnt do body counts.
I feel really sorry for the Afghani people...from what I have seen and heard, many are very worried about the foreign troops leaving.
just as Iraq and Libya have been forgotten - so will Afghanistan... such is the way of things ..
12 years on f rom the US invasion of Afghanistan
And theworld will wait and see waht will happen when NATO eventually leave Afghanistan.
If you look at the list of candidates for the Presidency, they are mainly warlords and Taliban aligned right wingers..
The Taliban say there will be no negotiations with the Afghan government untill all foreign forces leave Afghanistan.
Not too much of a waste, the majority of the population have tasted relevative freedom for the last 12 years, they've had some semblence of a democratic govt. It is a start but the Afghans have to take it from here.
Seems a waste of 12 years. Nato will go and the Taliban will be back in government posts..
Funny guy, he would'nt even be in Afghanistan if it wasn't for NATO, he would still be in exile. The Taliban would still be there pushing their brand of Islam, oppressing and killing women, behead those in the national stadium on spurious reasons and taking the country back to the stone age.
He can't stand again ..
Playing to the gallery..... oh wait is there an election soon...