Afghan president 'has lost faith in US ability to defeat Taliban'

[Ed Barrow]

Source: The Guardian

President Hamid Karzai has lost faith in the US strategy in Afghanistan and is increasingly looking to Pakistan to end the insurgency, according to those close to Afghanistan's former head of intelligence services.

Amrullah Saleh, who resigned last weekend, believes the president lost confidence some time ago in the ability of Nato forces to defeat the Taliban.

As head of the National Directorate of Security, Saleh was highly regarded in western circles. He has said little about why he quit, other than that the Taliban attack on last week's peace jirga or assembly in Kabul was for him the "tipping point"; the interior minister, Hanif Atmar, also quit, and their resignations were accepted by Karzai.

Privately Saleh has told aides he believes Karzai's approach is dangerously out of step with the strategy of his western backers. "There came a time when (Karzai) lost his confidence in the capability of the coalition or even his own government (to protect) this country," a key aide told the Guardian.


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/09/afghanistan-taliban-us-hamid-karzai

[madrchsod]

1. good..let`s pack them up and bring them home...

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. Then let's pack it in, and get the hell out. Hopefully, this is Karzai's

public call for us to leave?

[L0oniX]

3. Gee I'm crushed.

:eyes:

[bulloney]

4. When you dick around in Afghanistan for 8 years and accomplish nothing, what do you expect?

[Turbineguy]

5. Put

the turd in Karzai's pocket. Let him deal with it then.

[elehhhhna]

6. And ....Buh-bye!

[ProgressiveVictory]

7. lets see him kick their ass

talking shit about something you cant do yourself

[Arctic Dave]

8. This boondoggle isn't about defeating anything. Its about making money.

What an idiot.

[SpankMe]

9. The US is doing more than he is...

...plus, Karzai is a mentally unstable goober.

[SILVER__FOX52]

10. This is about the oil fields and the pipelines.

Total bullshit.

[Indianademocrat91]

11. Leave!

If he doesn't think we can do it, then let the almighty Pakistani government do it :rofl: ....I for one will be happy when I don't see anymore news articles about NATO(US Troops) dying in Afghanistan

[slay]

15. +1

can't leave soon enough for me - shit the government won't really tell us why we're there anyways (oil, pipeline, etc). fuckin taliban bullshit.

[Catherina]

12. It took you this long? n/t

[bvar22]

13. All you have to know is that Cheney picked this guy,

and installed him a "President".

I STILL can't believe that Obama hitched his War Wagon to Karzai, the corrupt Mayor of Kabul.
I mean, Obama is supposed to be smart and everything.

Meet Hamid Karzai
or as Obama calls him, "The Government of Afghanistan".

He was appointed by Bush the Lesser to run Afghanistan.
He is one of the most despicable criminals in The World,
But NOW we like him so much
that our children fighting and dying in the deserts of Afghanistan to keep him in power.

Commanded in Chief
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091221/engelhardt

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[slay]

16. I disagree 100% - but Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[keopeli]

17. Remember how Reagan/Bush manipulated Iran before the 1980 elections to undermine and defeat Carter?

Remember that Rumsfeld and Cheney were key players in that silent coup? I believe they are trying similar shinanigans with their guy Karzai. I believe the may have had a hand in the assassination of the Pakistani leader pre-election in 08 to prevent Democratic diplomatic efforts and, perhaps, even in the recent maligned Iranian elections that returned Achmadinijad to power fraudulently.

Why not believe these things? The fact is that these scenarios are much more in line with our history of intervention in affairs within the Middle East for the past Century than any of the cockamamy stories we are being sold on the Teevee.

The truth is that none of us know the truth. Karzai has not been "playing ball" with the US since Obama came into office, in spite of Obama's desire to effectively prosecute the Afghanistan War. It makes one wonder.