Afghan leader Hamid Karzai demanded greater control Saturday over American military operations in his country and called for vigorous punishment of any U.S. troops who mistreat prisoners.He also said he wants the United States to hand over all Afghan prisoners still in U.S. custody.
A cable sent on May 13 from the United States Embassy in Kabul, the Afghan capital, said that provincial officials and village elders had impeded destruction of significant poppy acreage and that top Afghan officials, including Mr. Karzai, had done little to overcome that resistance.
The cable also faulted Britain, which has the top responsibility for counternarcotics assistance in Afghanistan, for being "substantially responsible" for the failure to eradicate more acreage.
This is nothing more than today's case of blame it on someone else. First it's really nice to know that the U.S. is more interested in limiting poppy production in Afghanistan than fighting guerillas, which is funny because the entire war on drugs assertion that the money made from these drugs goes into terrorists coffers is false; many small time farmers (not terrorists) farm poppy to make a living. Then it also conveniently ignores the U.S. torture stories that recently broke and ignores Karzai's demands to set things right. Instead we're going to blame Karzai and the British for all our problems.
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