Is U.S. involvement in Afghanistan undermining the credibility of the Afghanistan government?
They dont know the history of Afghanistan. If they studied the history of Afghanistan-even the recent history of Afghanistanthey would know that the partnership between the two nations started with the Soviet invasion. We were asking, we were seeking, as Afghan people, support, the partnership, and the assistance of the United States. In fact, our complaint was that after the Soviets were gone, after the Communists were defeated in Afghanistan, the United States left Afghanistan. And therefore, the extremists from foreign countries and the destruction of the state institutions provided a ground for the terrorist groups to hijack Afghanistan. The United States came to Afghanistan to help out the Afghan people. They came to defeat the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and the terrorists who were foreign to the Afghan culture and to the Afghan history. And today, Afghans are very pragmatic. They know that the security institutions in Afghanistan like the army, police force, the judicial system, and othe
