Hamid Karzai’s comments draw ire from United States lawmakers

Controversial comments by Afghan President Hamid Karzai have drawn an angry response in the United States of America. During an interview with a private Pakistani news channel, Karzai said that his country would side with Pakistan in case fighting broke
out between its neighbour and the United States of America.

”If fighting starts between Pakistan and the US, we are beside Pakistan.”

“If Pakistan is attacked and the people of Pakistan need Afghanistan’s help, Afghanistan will be there with you.” Karzai said.

The Afghan President has since backtracked from the comments, fearing exactly the kind of response it has now drawn from the imperial power.

”Without the assistance of the United States, dollar 468 billion from the United States Treasury and the supreme sacrifice of 1,820 American soldiers who have died during Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan would still be ruled by a gang of Taliban thugs
with few individual liberties and no popularly elected leaders,” Rep. Norm Dicks of Washington state, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations defence subcommittee, said in a statement.

Sen. Joe Manchin, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, also expressed deep reservations over Karzai’s remarks and called for stopping all aid to the war torn country.

”Now more than ever, President Karzai’s insult to America tells me that it’s time for our country to stop pouring our limited taxpayer dollars and losing precious American lives in a country where we aren’t even welcome – and even worse, where they have
the gall to threaten to side against us,”

Americans believe that the United States has offered great sacrifices for the Afghanistan, despite the fact that its war against terror has come at the cost of thousands of civilian Afghan deaths. The imperial power does not take lightly to the air of defiance
shown by Karzai and believe that the President, who was installed by the USA after they removed the Taliban from power, should only serve as a mouth piece for their country and not as an independent representative of his people.

Lawmakers are expected to vent further anger when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appears before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday. It would be her first congressional hearing after returning from a recent tour of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Posted by Ali Ahmed on Oct 27 2011. Filed under Latest News, Pakistan, South Asia, USA. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry