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June 18, 2010

Karzai Sides with the Taliban, Again

Ralph Peters, RealClearPolitics

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Within Afghanistan, only a single US program continues to do real damage to the Taliban. And President Hamid Karzai wants it to stop.

Our special operations forces (especially, the Army's) have been gutting the Taliban's leadership. Karzai doesn't like that. He didn't like our use of airpower and artillery, either. The Taliban feared them too much and told wild lies about civilian casualties. Most fire support ceased. More soldiers and Marines died.

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TAGGED: Taliban, Hamid Karzai, United States, Afghanistan, President

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