Kabul is struggling to set the record straight now that an influential lobby in Washington is trying to pass the blame of the faltering US war in Afghanistan on to the Karzai regime. Democratic Congressman Rick Larsen, a member of the influential Congressional Armed Services Committee, was the latest in a row of Washington bigwigs to blame the Karzai regime for everything that was going wrong in Afghanistan.
Mr Larsen declaimed last week that the war on terror is failing because the Karzai administration is thoroughly corrupt and cannot deliver the basics to the common Afghan people. Aid money is allegedly being pilfered by Hamid Karzai, his family and coterie leaving nothing for the country’s impoverished masses. A population without basic services that ought to be provided by the state is progressively turning to the Taliban. This, Congressman Larsen and others in his camp aver, is at the root of the US failure to combat the Taliban. “I think the patience of the American people is almost done”, the Congressman declared after visiting Kabul last week.
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