March 17, 2012

What Is Karzai Thinking?

Joshua Partlow, Washington Post

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For a decade, American troops have fought and died defending Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s government. On Thursday, with the U.S. defense secretary looking on from Kabul, Karzai demanded that those troops stop fighting for him.

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