At Least Four People Killed By U.S. Drone In Afghanistan
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Kabul, Afghanistan Outgoing Afghan President Hamid Karzai used his farewell speech on Tuesday to take one last swipe at the United States, capping a long-testy relationship with the accusation that America hasn't wanted peace in Afghanistan. The US ambassador called the comments ungracious and ungrateful.
The only president Afghanistan has known since the 2001 US-led invasion said the United States wanted war in Afghanistan "because of its own interests." Karzai's relationship with the US has grown increasingly fragile in recent years, but the US-Afghan relationship may get a reset on Monday, when President-elect Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai will be sworn in.
The United States 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 Karzai in his speech thanked a slew of countries for their help India, Japan, China, Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Germany without thanking the US.
The speech fingered the US and the military leaders of neighboring Pakistan as the powers backing perpetual war.
"If America and Pakistan really want it, peace will come to Afghanistan," Karzai said. "The war in Afghanistan is to the benefit of foreigners. But Afghans on both sides are the sacrificial lambs and victims of this war."
More than 2,200 US forces have died in Afghanistan operations since 2001. Nearly 20,000 have been wounded.
US Ambassador James B. Cunningham called Karzai's comments ungracious and ungrateful, though he said he believes the wider Afghan public appreciates American assistance and efforts over the last 13 years.
"It makes me kind of sad. I think his remarks which were uncalled for, do a disservice to the American people and dishonor the huge sacrifices Americans have made here and continue to make here," Cunningham told a gathering of journalists.
Cunningham noted that Karai has overseen the country's first peaceful transfer of power, part of a positive legacy overall. The president, he said, "undoubtedly had one of the more difficult jobs in the world for a long time."
The United Nations says that some 8,000 Afghan civilians have been killed in the conflict over the last five years alone. Karzai for years has railed against US military strikes for the civilian casualties that some of them cause although the United Nations has said insurgents are to blame for the overwhelming majority of casualties.
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