Few Afghans Back Karzai, Pentagon Warns
Report Cites Corruption as Major Problem
The Pentagon has issued a new report to Congress about the ongoing war in Afghanistan, warning that the Taliban is increasing the size of their insurgency even as support for President Hamid Karzai remains sparse in the most important regions.
In fact of the 121 districts cited as “key” to winning the war in the report, only 29 of those districts had populations seen as even sympathizing with the Karzai government.
The report pointed to the enormous levels of corruption in the Karzai government as a major problem fueling this lack of credibility, and warned further that the political will to reform was “doubtful.”
The report is likely to again draw attention to the rift between the Obama Administration and the Karzai government, one which led to open condemnations back and forth earlier this month.
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E. A. Costa
April 29th, 2010 at 4:32 am
Few Afghans back Karzai, even fewer back Pentagon…
ziggy
April 29th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
And even fewer back any foreign intervention in their lands for any purpose. But since when does the USA give serious and objective consideration to the sentiments of other people when we embark on foreign adventures and rampages?
Better late than never, we are being prompted by Pentagon that is acutely aware that Afghanistan can absorb more injustice than the USA can afford (morally and economically) to keep inflicting.
Everyone with any sense knows Afghanistan will never be controlled or built up under US auspices, and until complete withdrawal we're just killing people and time to preserve our world-leading stockpile of nationalistic narcissism.
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