Sounds like somebody has pulled their head out of their ass ! I know it is just talk but , really it is the truth ! You can not stop the Taliban or Al Qaida unless you can go into Pakistan ! That is where they are hiding ! that is where you must go ! It is time for Zardari to suck it up and give the go ahead !
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Afghanistan's president Tuesday praised U.S. plans to provide more civilian help to his country, and expressed hope that the country become less dependent on international partners in coming years.
But President Hamid Karzai -- in Washington this week along with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to meet with U.S. leaders -- stressed that Afghanistan's stability depends on whether Taliban strongholds in neighboring Pakistan are confronted.
U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke "had the best remark that I've ever heard from a U.S. official," Karzai said. "He said no matter how economically powerful Afghanistan is or becomes, no matter how effective a government Afghanistan has, no matter how powerful an army and the security institution of Afghanistan is, unless the sanctuaries of our neighbors, the training grounds of our neighbors, go away, Afghanistan will not be stable or peaceful."
Addressing the re-emergence of Taliban militants, who were ousted from power by a U.S.-led coalition after the September 11 attacks on the United States, Karzai said, "We did not address the question of sanctuaries in time," a reality, he said, that hurts Afghanistan and Pakistan.
"We must seek from Pakistan a very clear moving away from whatever linkage that there may be with radical forces or the use of radicalism. Unless we do that, we will continue to be bogged down. We will continue to suffer," Karzai said.
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