Sunday, October 28, 2007
Still winning those hearts and minds in Afghanistan...
Karzai and Bush in better days.
From the NY Daily News:
"Afghan Premier Hamid Karzai wants the U.S. to dramatically cut back on bombing campaigns that have accidentally killed hundreds of civilians.
"The Afghan people understand that mistakes are made," Karzai told CBS News' "60 Minutes," "but five years on, six years on ... they cannot comprehend as to why there is still a need for air power."
Although Karzai has criticized the U.S. and its allies for individual raids that killed civilians, the interview is the first time he has demanded wholesale changes.
"In clear words and I want to repeat that [there are] alternatives to the use of air force," he told Scott Pelley in an interview airing Sunday evening.
Six years after the fall of the Taliban, the U.S. has unleashed bombing raids across wide swaths of Afghanistan in hopes of smashing the Islamic rebels.
They have inadvertently killed almost as many civilians as insurgents. [emphasis added]"
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Labels: Afghanistan, GOP incompetence, War on Terror
