>>>>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/12/06/us.afghanistan.karzai/index.html
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>>>>This makes steam come out of my ears. Are eight years and untold billions of dollars not patience enough? Here is the leader of one of the most corrupt governments in the world, the "winner" of an election this fall that was so crooked it would have made the old Soviets blush, and he's lecturing us. Unbelievable.
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>>>>Someone please remind me why we care about Afghanistan beyond taking out the terrorists who are there. We can do that without having to put up with lectures from tinhorn dictators.
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>>>Don't be angry him. He just the "voice of his master". Read this article: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/08/20/saigon_2009
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>>>Taliban will be next at Afghanistan. Noone can change that truth.
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>>Well, we can. Obama and other U.S. officials are already putting pressure on both Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the Taliban have been retreating to resupply. Obama told the Pakistani president directly that if they don't do anything about the Taliban in his country, we will. I agree with him that we have spent too much time screwing around with countries that take our money and then do little or nothing.
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>He already said we run from Afghanistan in 2011. I'm sure he's really striking fear in the Taliban. That is why our losses have gone up drastically. At least he'll feed more bodies to them (so he can say he's showing strength) while he gathers up his skirt and prepares to run away (so he can say he's leaving). What a guy. Going both ways at once.

He is being tougher in that region than you are giving him credit for. Certainly tougher than Afghanistan and Pakistan seemed to expect. Just because he looks like Bambi doesn't mean he wears a skirt.

Our losses have gone up in Afghanistan this year because we are increasingly turning our attention there and away from Iraq (good), and attacking more instead of just trying to keep the peace. Of course there will be more casualties.