Karzai under foreigners' influence: Afgha(gov't run) paper

[maddezmom]

Source: Reuters

KABUL (Reuters) - President Hamid Karzai is under the influence of foreign powers and troops led by NATO and the U.S. must set a firm date for their departure from Afghanistan, a government-run daily newspaper said on Saturday.

The remarks are the first of their kind in an Afghan paper about Karzai and foreign troops in Afghanistan, where there is frustration over growing insecurity and rampant corruption.

"...It should be said that the Afghan nation reacts seriously, despite its difficulties, when the national interests of their country are exposed to foreign danger and have never accepted and nor will accept a protege government," Anis said.

"If the world does not pay attention to this matter, soon the fire of Afghanistan will burn the region and a situation will emerge that will be unimaginable for anyone."



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080216/wl_nm/afghan_karzai_dc

[acmavm]

1. Oh well, if you kill enough civilians, put enough money into warlord's pockets,

and run a 'war on terra' like a bunch of monkeys fighting over a banana, I suppose you do wear out your welcome.

[FATCATs]

2. Gee ya think !

Karzai under foreigners' influence aka The U.S- Exxon Mobile !

[Robeson]

3. Duh.

[notadmblnd]

4. Did someone from Rueters just land here on this planet?

Or was the writer just kept in a cave for the past 7 years?

[TheLastMohican]

5. Definetely in a cave

The same cave with Osama bin Laden.

[krkaufman]

6. This is the same problem faced by the Iraqi government ...

... and should be the primary need expressed as to why we need to leave Iraq. ANY Iraqi government will not have the trust of the population so long as we are in the country and viewed as controlling their government. The US taint of the Iraqi and Afghan governments needs to be removed for those governments to gain the trust of their wider populations.