Karzai blasts NATO over deaths

Hamid Karzai is being slowly crushed by the vice-like pressures of indiscriminate NATO airstrikes and Afghan resistance movements, which seek his removal.

Bemoaning the brutality of NATO’s way of war, Karzai told reporters that “They cannot bring standards from their countries in the West and try to apply it in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is a different country. It has different values systems. It has a different community structure. From now onward, they have to work the way we ask them to work in here. That’s the line.”

But who will enforce this mythical line? Hamid now cuts a pathetic figure as he laments the Faustian bargain he struck with the Americans in order to gain power in Kabul.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, upset over the deaths of civilians caught in the middle of fighting between coalition troops and militant fighters, had harsh words for NATO forces Saturday.

Karzai’s comments came as dozens of militants were reportedly killed in southern and eastern Afghanistan in the latest clashes with U.S.-led foreign troops and Afghan forces.

“The disproportionate use of force to a situation and the lack of coordination with the Afghan government is causing these casualties,” Karzai said.

“You don’t fight a terrorist by firing a field gun 30 some kilometers away into a target. That is definitely surely bound to cause civilian casualties.”

Karzai pointed to an operation Thursday night near the town of Gereshk in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province during which, according to local estimates, more than two dozen civilians were killed as NATO forces battled suspected Taliban militants in a village.

Posted by Szamko
Just tries to tell the truth.