Afghanistan’s Karzai Takes One Last Swipe at US. before he leaves office. More than 2,200 U.S. forces have died in Afghanistan operations since 2001. Nearly 20,000 have returned home maimed.  The U.S. has spent more than $100 billion on aid in Afghanistan since 2001 to train and equip the country’s security forces, to pave crumbling dirt roads, to upgrade hospitals and to build schools.  But in his final speech before leaving office he thanked India, Japan, China, Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and Germany and poked  his finger in America’s eye again by not even thanking the U.S. or its people for the sacrifices they have made with their blood and treasure.  Our Christian God knows who did what and that is all that matters.  The goal was giving this country a taste and chance at democracy where the women and children are not slaves.  

This is a good representation of what our soldiers’ sacrifices means to a Muslim.  You talk about ungracious and ungrateful.  Karzai’s speech blamed the U.S. and the military leaders of Pakistan as the powers who are backing perpetual war.  The United Nations reports that some 8,000 Afghan civilians have been killed in the conflict over the last five years alone.  The United Nations has said insurgents (insurgents are Muslims who kill their own people – so what did Karzai have to say about that) are to blame for the overwhelming majority of casualties; but, Karzai has railed against U.S. military strikes for the civilian casualties that some of them cause.  Karzai did not seem to understand that in war there will be civilian casualties.  In the end, it is believed that the Afghan public appreciates American assistance and efforts over the last 13 years.

Our farewell bid to Karzai and the bad news is:  you cannot make people like, love, understand, validate, accept, or be nice to you.  You can’t control them either.  The good news is:  In the end, it doesn’t really matter.

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