AFGHANISTAN STEP
DOWN AGAINST US
Afghan President has
expressed extreme anger towards the United States as it prepares to end its 13
years war in Afghanistan, intensifying his criticism in his final months in
power. Karzai has taken an increasingly antagonistic view of the US role in Afghanistan,
despite formerly being a close all and accepting billions of dollars in aid
since he took office after the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001.
The president who will
stand down after elections on April 5, lashed out at the US government and
described Al-Qaeda, the Islamist militants behind the 9/11 attacks as more a
myth than a reality. To the American people given them my best wishes an my gratitude
to the US government give them my anger my extreme anger, Karzai the Washington
post in an interview on Monday.
But there was no immediate
response from the US embassy in Kabul, but relations between the two
countries have plunged to a new low as the final 55000 US-led NATO troops
prepare to head home and Karzai enters his final months in office.
The Afghan president made a
surprise decision late last year not to sign an agreed deal that would see
812000 US troops stay in Afghanistan after this year on a training an
counter-terrorism mission.
It is good for them (the
US) to sing it with my successor, he said in an interview Karzai vented his
fury over civilian causalities caused during the war against the Taliban, who
had sheltered al Qaeda while in power in Kabul from 1996-2001.
Why is American here? I
cannot answer for America. The American president says they are here to fight
extremism and terrorism and to secure America.
If they way toward securing
America is raiding Afghan homes, fighting in Afghan villages well that
will not secure America.
Afghan president refusal to sign a security deal with Washington
that would permit foreign troops to stay in Afghanistan beyond this year has
frustrated the White House, and President Obama has told the Pentagon to
prepare for the possibility that no US troops will be left in Afghanistan after
2014.
Obama told Karazi in a phone call on Tuesday that he had given the
order to the Pentagon. The Phone call was the first substantive
discussion between the two leaders since June.
But staking out a new position, the White House said in a
statement it would leave open the possibility of concluding the bilateral
security agreement later this year. It is good for them to sign it with
my successor.
On the other hand, The NATO-led force in Afghanistan has a current
strength of more than 50000 soldiers including 33000 US troops, more than 34000
coalition forces have been killed in the fight against the Taliban including US
troops.
While Afghanistan’s police and army are seen as having made big
strides in their remain about whether they can keep a still – potent Taliban at
by, especially in remote areas.
It is also stated by the Afghan leader that he was deeply troubled
by the war’s causalities, including those in US military operation and felt
betrayed by what he described as an insufficient US focus on going after
Taliban sanctuaries in Pakistan rather than in Afghan villages.
