In a recent interview with Spiegel, Karzai spoke of foreign interference in his country and his longing for the Taliban. There are NATO troops in Afghanistan and the question is are these the foreign influences he speaks of and if not, then why aren’t these NATO and American troops able to interrupt the deleterious influence these foreign elements have on Afghanistan politics? Or could that all be part of the plan? One could come to that conclusion when Karzai says certain Afghani groups are being paid to support outsiders and all this under the blessings of Karzai’s allies.
There is a lot of interference from abroad. The south part of the country has always been the center of the Taliban activity; they came from there. And there are also traces of the mujahedeen’s decades-long battle. These are all factors.
When we came back to Afghanistan, the international community brought back all those people who had turned away from the Taliban who then became partners with the foreign allies and are still paid by them today for their support.
SPIEGEL: Dirty deals are still necessary for the stability of Afghanistan?
Karzai: Absolutely necessary, because we lack the power to solve these problems in other ways. What do you want? War?
That last question is an unequivocal yes, by the way. Instability is a foreign policy objective for that part of the world because it insures a steady supply of drugs to the west and arms to the east. Oh, and did you catch the part where Karzai said he wished he had the Taliban working for him? I wonder how that made Laura Bush feel during her recent visit to Afghanistan?
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